Snowstorms in a Hot Climate
By Sarah Dunant
(Random House Trade Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780812974294, 320pp.)
Publication Date: September 13, 2005
Categories: Psychological, Suspense
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Marla’s best friend, Elly, left England two years ago on a soul-searching trip through South America. Except for receiving a few postcards, Marla has not heard from her since. Then, Marla receives a strange letter from Elly begging her to fly to New York. But the person Marla meets at the airport is a very different woman from the strong, carefree friend she remembers. Elly, now well-dressed and thin, has acquired a park-view apartment, a house in the Hamptons, and a charismatic, manipulative, cocaine-smuggling boyfriend named Lenny.
As Marla tries to free her friend from the dual addictions of love and cocaine, she unravels a story of seduction and power in Columbia and of desire and betrayal in California. Caught in a web of deceptions, the threat of violence mounting around them, Marla decides to take on Lenny and his empire. But Lenny–like the drug he peddles–has no intention of letting Elly go.
“Polished, intelligent, and inventive . . . high-grade stuff, laced only with wit, a touch of feminism, and myriad, entertaining ambiguities.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“An intricate psychological chess game . . . Sharp-edged humor, a devious, neo-Gothic plot that twists back on itself, and a lust for revenge impel the novel to its inexorable finale.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Ekes out the tension . . . increasingly thrilling as the pages fly by.”
–The Times (London)
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