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  • Published: 1 September 1995
  • ISBN: 9780749319724
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $32.99

The Cruelty Of Morning



A twenty-five-year-old murder, a missing girl, and fatal attraction in a small seaside town...

On a sunny Sunday in 1970, in the Devon resort of Pelham Bay, teenager Jennifer Stone discovers the corpse of a woman in the sparkling summer sea. It is an event that is to shape her destiny and that of Mark Piddle, the young reporter called to the scene, for the next twenty-five years; until the intense tragedy is resolved and a long-buried mystery comes to light.

The Cruelty of Morning is a tale of dangerous obsessions, small town secrets and a destructive, mesmerising love-affair.

  • Published: 1 September 1995
  • ISBN: 9780749319724
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Hilary Bonner

Hilary Bonner is the former showbusiness editor of the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mirror. She now lives in Somerset where she continues to work as a freelance journalist covering film, television and theatre. Hilary was the Chair of the Crime Writers' Association in 2003.

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