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Are You Afraid of the Dark? 
by Sidney Sheldon. Harper Collins. Pages 423. Rs 195.

Are You Afraid of the Dark? It couldn’t get better — for those who don’t want to be twiddling their thumbs while waiting for a flight or train; or for insomniacs who want to pass some hours of the night. Sidney Sheldon is back, after a gap of three years, with another racy thriller. It’s got all the trade-mark elements of a Sheldon bestseller — edge-of-the seat suspense, murders, mystery, a chase with twists and turns and women who go for the jugular of their tormentors.

When their husbands working on a top-secret project for a mighty think tank are killed, the attractive widows decide to track down the killers against diabolical odds. Diane Stevens and Kelly Harris, who are as fond of each other as a cat and mouse thrown together, overcome their antagonisms and join hands to zero in on the chief of the Kingsley International Group. 

The odds are stacked heavily against them. At every step they are stalked by ruthless killers. But undaunted by the obstacles and the awesome power and reach of the evil enemy, they cut their way through to lay bare the crime and the criminal. There is a lot of action set in New York, Paris and Berlin.

The book, released on September 14, is already on the stands in India.

— S.R

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