Cry from the Dark
A Novel of Suspense
Excerpt
CHAPTER 1: Crabbed Youth and Age
Eighteen and eighty sat regarding each other across the Holland Park flat, calculation and world-weariness instinct in the eyes of the younger woman.
"I've been so looking forward to meeting you," said Kerry Probyn.
That Bettina did not doubt. Never had she seen a young eye more fixed on the main chance. She could be useful to the young Miss Probyn's burgeoning film career, and therefore she was valued. And as soon as the film was made, marketed, and shown she, Bettina, would prove to be one of the "base degrees" of the ladder by which she had ascended, and would accordingly be scorned.
"Let's begin," she began briskly. "I have a friend coming for tea at four. I hope the photographer will be prompt."
"Oh, he will," said Kerry, with a look that said they were both professional women. "You made it clear that he had to be."
Bettina smiled, knowingly, without replying.
"Well?" she said, when the silence had not been filled.
She looked at the girl across the table that was between them. She had distrusted Miss Probyn from the moment she h ... read full excerpt from A Cry from the Dark: A Novel of Suspense ebook
