Originally Posted by Little.Egret
Endeavour Books, free
Spider Girl by Peter Lovesey is a reprint
First published by Cassell in 1980 as by "Peter Lear"
It's the early 1980s and 23-year-old Sarah Jordan, a PhD student at an American university, is studying spiders...
Sarah finds her studies so absorbing, that much of campus life seems to pass her by.
She barely registers her research assistant's interest in her, even though Don is the college Lothario and pursued by many female students.
Even Sarah's relationships with family and friends are perfunctory and distant, but that, it seems, is how she prefers to live.
When Sarah is filmed for a TV documentary about spiders, she meets a psychologist involved in the show, and the pair strike up a friendship.
As they spend more and more time together, Sarah realises that she wants more than friendship from Dr Cunningham and he gradually discovers just why Sarah is the way she is.
Peter Lovesey is the author of numerous crime novels. His novels include Wobble to Death (1970; part of the Sergeant Cribb series) and The Last Detective (1991; part of the Peter Diamond series).
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