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<p><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">Clare's last novel, </span><a href="/books/1" style="line-height: 1.4em;">Unforgotten</a><span style="line-height: 1.4em;">, is a psychological crime thriller which explores the effects of tragedy on two very different men, and their attempts to find justice.</span><br /> The paperback was published in the UK in November 2008. Click this link to <a href="/books/1">read more details</a> and order your copy.</p>
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<p>I'm sorry, but there won't be a new book this year. Life and events, good and bad, have conspired to get in the way. And after eleven novels perhaps it was no bad thing to have a break.</p>
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