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Country United States Publication date May 25, 2010 Pages 352 Originally published 25 May 2010 Genre Thriller | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-06-172830-6 Page count 352 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preceded by Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game Publisher William Morrow and Company Similar Tilly Bagshawe books, Thriller books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sidney sheldon s after the darkness
Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness is a 2010 novel by Tilly Bagshawe. Bagshawe began writing Sidney Sheldon works after the latter's death in 2007. After writing Mistress of the Game, Tilly Bagshawe once again recaptured the late Sidney Sheldon’s way of thriller writing in After the Darkness. The novel echoes the Bernie Madoff scandal in America.
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The author contends that she “[wrote] and research[ed] as Sidney did. I pretty much read all his work, dreaming it, and thought it to get it right. I tried very consciously to be true to him and sound like his voice.”
Plot summary
Grace Brookstein lived a luxurious lifestyle despite the economic free fall in the US. Then suddenly her billionaire husband Lenny mysteriously disappeares in a tragic sailing accident. Along with Lenny's disappearance, Lenny's hedge fund, the Quorum, that has a $75 billion investment is also missing and everyone believes that Grace stole the money. She was convicted and imprisoned. Grace believed that she is framed. Now alone and no one to turn to, she is determined to find out who is framing her and is desperate for revenge.