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Nicola Upson blends biography and fiction, excitement and menace, and a touch of Alfred Hitchcock in Fear in the Sunlight, a mystery starring real-life writer Josephine Tey.Summer, 1936: Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephines novel, A Shilling for Candles, and Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertainedand expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of Hollywoods leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day, fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothingand no oneis quite what it seems.Based in part on the life of Josephine Teyone of the most popular, best-loved crime writers of the Golden Age, Nicola Upsons Fear in the Sunlight features legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock as a prominent characterand features the classic suspense and psychological tension that fans of Hitchcock films love.