From Publishers Weekly
Plain's latest mystery concerns business machinations, child molestation and murder within a powerful family. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
This new novel concerns a seemingly forthright family's dark secrets.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
When a family business passes from one generation to the next, a lot can happen. But in Plain's newest novel, office politics is just a subplot of the real drama that takes place after everyone goes home. Clive, a short and sickly bachelor, and Ian, his handsome lady-chasing brother, now run Grey Foods with their cousin Daniel. Clive is concerned about his future; Ian is flabbergasted over Clive's new bride; Daniel worries about the threat of selling the company; Daniel's wife, Sally, has the most to be worried about. She believes someone sexually molested their five-year-old daughter, and her search for who among her famous family could have done such a thing causes another tragedy. Sally's maternal feelings and natural instincts are the best part of this book, which is an unsubtle reworking of the family-secret-that's-been-buried-for-years theme. Plain tosses in a not very sophisticated murder-mystery angle, but her devoted readers will forgive her this indiscretion--and she has droves of readers, all of whom will be demanding this book. Kathy Broderick

ANNOTATION

The stunning New York Times bestseller is now in paperback! When Sally Grey found out her daughter had been sexually abused, she was devastated. Never would anyone guess that her father-in-law, Oliver Grey, had a dark side few people knew about. And when an heirloom silver carousel unearths his shocking secret, lives will change forever--especially Oliver's.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

It couldn't happen to a family like the Greys. Surely, Dan and Sally's troubled five-year-old daughter could not have been molested as the doctor claimed. She was too well guarded for anything like that to happen. But she was destroying their home and their lives. Meanwhile, the family business was tottering, threatened by dissent from within. The pressure was on to sell family land to foreign investors, a move that divided the Greys and threatened Grey's Foods and the small upstate New York city it fed. Oliver Grey, the handsome silver-haired patriarch, bowed out, leaving the business to his sons, Ian and Clive, and Dan, the orphaned nephew he reared as his own. Ian was ready to sell to the highest bidder to buy off his mistress and save the marriage he couldn't afford to lose. Clive, the brilliant misfit, gave his life to the business until he, too, met a woman. Amanda, Dan's estranged sister, had the knowledge, the power, and the motive to destroy them all: an unspeakable secret that would link her to a little girl and a silver carousel.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Plain's latest mystery concerns business machinations, child molestation and murder within a powerful family. (May)

Library Journal

This new novel concerns a seemingly forthright family's dark secrets.

BookList - Kathy Broderick