Book description
Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the
holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday.
Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a
deal to film Josephine's novel, A Shilling for Candles, and
Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday
party entertained - and expose their deepest fears.
But things get out of hand when one of Hollywood's leading
actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the
village. The following day, as fear and suspicion take over in a
setting where nothing - and no one - is quite what it seems, Chief
Inspector Archie Penrose becomes increasingly unsatisfied with the
way the investigation is ultimately resolved. Several years later,
another horrific murder, again linked to a Hitchcock movie, drives
Penrose back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the
shocking truth.
Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing
College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance
journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the
recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England. Her
debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of
crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey - one of the
leading authors of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She lives
with her partner in Cambridge and spends much of her time in Cornwall,
which was the setting for her second novel, Angel with Two
Faces. Two for Sorrow is the third book in the Josephine
Tey series, followed by Fear in the Sunlight.
