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Deadly secrets and shocking truths…
When Jo Townsend spies a strange man taking photos of her running her stall in Camden Lock Market, she is shaken up to say the least. But her attempts to put the strange incident aside are undermined when she is assaulted upon her return home by an unknown assailant – who is looking for her husband, Mike.
As she looks to her husband for answers, Mike reveals that the intruder was probably after a pre-Columbian statuette he had obtained on the black market. And when he persuades Jo to smuggle the statuette into France, Jo has no idea that her life will be turned upside down, as she is forced to revisit her former childhood home – a house filled with dark family secrets and chilling memories…
And little does she know that Marcel Drac, the man convicted of killing her father years ago, has been released from prison – and out for revenge…
With explosive revelations and shocking twists, The Toy Cupboard is a gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
‘A very efficiently woven novel of suspense and mystery … ingenious.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A lovely, eerie suspense novel that held me from first to last.’ Phyllis A. Whitney
‘The tension is almost unbearable.’ Manchester Evening News
‘Suspense is more or less guaranteed.’ The Observer
Alan Scholefield was born in 1931 in Cape Town, South Africa. After leaving university he became a journalist and travelled widely in southern and central Africa, Europe, and America. He now lives in Hampshire with his wife and has three daughters. Most famous for his Macrae and Silver series, Scholefield has also written other novels, including Venom, which was made into a film in 1981.
Genre: Mystery
When Jo Townsend spies a strange man taking photos of her running her stall in Camden Lock Market, she is shaken up to say the least. But her attempts to put the strange incident aside are undermined when she is assaulted upon her return home by an unknown assailant – who is looking for her husband, Mike.
As she looks to her husband for answers, Mike reveals that the intruder was probably after a pre-Columbian statuette he had obtained on the black market. And when he persuades Jo to smuggle the statuette into France, Jo has no idea that her life will be turned upside down, as she is forced to revisit her former childhood home – a house filled with dark family secrets and chilling memories…
And little does she know that Marcel Drac, the man convicted of killing her father years ago, has been released from prison – and out for revenge…
With explosive revelations and shocking twists, The Toy Cupboard is a gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
‘A very efficiently woven novel of suspense and mystery … ingenious.’ Times Literary Supplement
‘A lovely, eerie suspense novel that held me from first to last.’ Phyllis A. Whitney
‘The tension is almost unbearable.’ Manchester Evening News
‘Suspense is more or less guaranteed.’ The Observer
Alan Scholefield was born in 1931 in Cape Town, South Africa. After leaving university he became a journalist and travelled widely in southern and central Africa, Europe, and America. He now lives in Hampshire with his wife and has three daughters. Most famous for his Macrae and Silver series, Scholefield has also written other novels, including Venom, which was made into a film in 1981.
Genre: Mystery
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