Well, Kennedy is at it again. Always the well turned-out, elegantly stylish, attractive woman who mislays her life and gets involved with a loser. There is no other way to describe it, actually.
Robin is an ex-journalist, divorced from her first husband of whom she was never sure whether he even liked women. She then becomes a public accountant with her own firm and meets her husband-to-be Paul, whose tax she has to sort out.
Though the sex is good, Paul has an irresponsible streak and remains a Bohemian at heart with no sense of the value of money.
He convinces her that a holiday in Morocco, where he had a two-year stint as an artist in his early 20s, will re-kindle their marriage. But this is not the way things happen, or at least not in Kennedy’s dysfunctional paradise.
Paul disappears in Morocco and Robin has to fend for herself. The local police think she has murdered her husband and she barely evades arrest. She discovers, piecemeal, the hidden corners of Paul’s previous life and all the deception she has been exposed to erupts.
While on the run from the authorities, she is torn between the opposing desires to call it quits on the marriage and return home, or to find and rescue her missing husband.
Ever hopeful, she tries to find him in the Sahara and then things start to unravel rather spectacularly.
The Heat of Betrayal is written by Douglas Kennedy and published by Hutchinson