Tell Tale

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly-awaited, brand-new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930’s woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour. These wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.

Co-published by: Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre.

Explains how choosing different narrators and using point of view can affect how readers experience a story.

Savannah Williams walked away from her job as a Criminal Profiler for the FBI after a serial killer she was unable to profile took the life of her partner, friend and lover. She now lives a quiet, life with her two dogs in the small town of Ashley, Michigan. That quiet is shattered when Savannah receives a call from Jim Matthews, her ex-boyfriend and a homicide detective, informing her that one of her clients has been found viciously murdered not far from her home. This murder and the ones that follow send Savannah on a path of self-discovery that uncovers hidden strengths as well as weaknesses .Challenged by overzealous friends, one ex-lover and a string of disjointed clues Savannah uses both her skill and a certain amount of luck to discover that the current killer is the same one she has dealt with in the past.