A granite silence Author Forename:Nina whose angelic intentions may not

whose angelic intentions may not be all they seem

a chain of events begins which sees all four pursued by the police

He told Jessie Currie - who repeated all the last words of her twin sister - that she needed psychiatric help

Private investigator Frank Armstrong barely scrapes by in the Los Angeles underbelly until 'the big one' hits his desk

as Wordsworth puts it

A granite silence Author Forename:Nina whose angelic intentions may notA journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight year old Helen Priestly lives with her mother and father. Among this long, grey corridor of four storey tenements, a daunting expanse of granite, working families are squashed together like pickled herrings in their narrow flats. Here are Helen's neighbours: the Topps, the Josses, the Mitchells, the Gordons, the Donalds, the Coulls and