Killing Me Softly
Book description
***Special anniversay edition, with a new introduction by Peter Robinson***
You're in passionate love. And grave danger . . .
Alice Loudon couldn't resist abandoning her old, safe life for a wild affair. And in Adam Tallis, a rugged mountaineer with a murky past, Alice finds a man who can…
Why read it?
1 author picked Killing Me Softly as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
We’re in fiction now. This is the story of Alice, a young professional woman with a settled life and reliable boyfriend, who jettisons it all when she meets Adam, a mountaineer. Adam is very broken, with PTSD after a tragedy in the mountains. I know climbers who would say the plot is sensationalist, but I’ve also met climbers who seem to have left their most vivid selves in that white otherworld. And this is the essential territory of Nicci French novels - people with dangerous edges and missing pieces, and how charismatic they are.
From Roz's list on high-altitude mountaineering.
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