Download e-book for iPad: Praying Mantis by Roger Longrigg (Domini Taylor)

Victoria Courtenay is gorgeous, captivating to the center, even if this is often nearly entirely affectation as she has an underlying ruthlessness within which she makes use of her seems and demeanour to procure no matter what she wishes. certainly, it is going a lot extra as she has a completely evil streak which drives her to trap humans in after which strike, as a praying mantis. She is set to get her approach, with kinfolk, neighbors, and fanatics … This novel is one in every of mental suspense at its most sensible and is stuffed with surprises.

The writer: Roger Longrigg was once a British writer of surprising versatility who wrote either novels and non-fiction, in addition to performs and screenplays for tv, lower than either his personal identify and 8 different pseudonyms.

Born in Edinburgh right into a army relations, he was once before everything schooled within the center East, yet back to England as a early life and later learn heritage at Magdalen collage, Oxford. His early occupation took him into ads, yet after the ebook of 2 comedian novels took up writing complete time in 1959.

He accomplished 55 books, many less than his personal identify, but in addition Scottish ancient fiction as Laura Black; thrillers as Ivor Drummond (for which his leader personality, woman Jennifer Norrington used to be named by way of HRF Keating within the occasions as ‘The real inheritor of James Bond’); black comedies as Domini Taylor; Frank Parish (which titles function the adventures of Dan Mallett, a poacher who lives at the edges of legality) - and famously Rosalind Erskine – a reputation with which he hoaxed considering numerous years, and who seemed to write a disguised biography of what existence was once like in a ladies boarding university the place the classmates ran a brothel for boys from a close-by tuition. Erskine’s ‘The ardour Flower inn' grew to become a bestseller and used to be later filmed.

Roger Longrigg’s paintings in tv integrated ‘Mother Love’, a BBC mini-series starring Diana Rigg and David McCallum, and episodes of ‘Crown courtroom’ and ‘Dial M for Murder’.

He died in 2000, elderly 70 and used to be survived by way of his spouse, the novelist Jane Chichester, and 3 daughters.