Books by Penelope Evans and Complete Book Reviews

The Last Girl: A Psychological Thriller
The Last Girl: A Psychological Thriller
Penelope Evans, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13998-8
With chilling first-person narration, Evans inhabits the mind of a psychopath, balancing her case study and a tensely comic undercurrent with a precision quite remarkable in a first novel. Larry Mann, 72, appears harmless. He rents an apartment in a
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Freezing-C
Freezing-C
Penelope Evans, Author Soho Press $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-121-0
Evans is a young London writer and lawyer with a distinct knack for macabre chills. Her new book, after The Last Girl (1997), takes as its improbable hero narrator Stewart Park, an abject stutterer of weird appearance who lives in a fantasy world of
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First Fruits
First Fruits
Penelope Evans, Author Soho Crime $23 (262p) ISBN 978-1-56947-188-3
In this darkly seductive follow-up to Freezing (1998), Evans positions catty Scottish schoolgirls as unknowing victims of a family's control fetish. Part Lolita-esque twist on the psychological thriller, part straight-ahead mystery, this unusual,...
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