Fear in the Sunlight

<p>Nicola Upson blends biography and fiction excitement and menace and a touch of Alfred Hitchcock in <em>Fear in the Sunlight</em> a mystery starring real-life writer Josephine Tey.</p><p>Summer 1936: Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort 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 <em>A Shilling for Candles</em> and Alfred 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 fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothing--and no one--is quite what it seems.</p><p>Based in part on the life of Josephine Tey--one of the most popular best-loved crime writers of the Golden Age Nicola Upson's <em>Fear in the Sunlight</em> features legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock as a prominent character--and features the classic suspense and psychological tension that fans of Hitchcock films love.</p>