The Midnight Dancers

A pretty young artist agrees to design a stained-glass window in Bou Hammagan, North Africa. She is delighted because her husband, a famous television commentator is working in the city also, doing a documentary. The artist takes along her husbands young daughter and from their arrival the two are running across some pretty strange things. The daughters diary disappears on one of their outings and then the artist receives an anonymous phone call implicating her husband in a murder. Feeling helpless and desperate, Cathy tries to understand the danger that surrounds her. Adding to her horror are unbearable domestic tensions. Pippa demands her father's wholehearted attention, resents her stepmother. And Mark, always dedicated to his work and fiercely self-contained, is more remote than ever. Does his silence signify indifference, or has he something to hide? When Pippa spots him in the marketplace with a beautiful woman, Cathy's suspicions grow. Quickly and suspensefully, the story builds to a dramatic climax, bringing Cathy into a terrifying encounter with death and revealing an astounding intrigue in which the fates of Cathy, Mark and Pippa are inextricably intertwined. Set against the background of the Arab world, its exotic sights and sounds and creatures, The Midnight Dancers tells a harrowing and enchanting tale. Each sun-scorched day-from morning until midnight, when the green-winged "dancer" moths, indigenous to Bou Hammagan, come out-holds in store surprising developments that keep the reader tensely happily engrossed.