title: An Absolute Gentleman: A Novel
author:  R. M. Kinder 
description: You may never look quite the same way at that punctilious little man down the street after reading this chilling first novel from Kinder, author of two well-received short story collections (<I>A Near-Perfect Gift</I> and <I>Sweet Angel Band</I>). Inspired by her own brush with a serial killer&mdash;back in the late '80s her neighbor Robert Weeks was sentenced to life in prison for two murders and suspected of more&mdash;Kinder deftly limns the deadly odyssey of Arthur Blume, a middle-aged creative writing professor who manages to be both the most ordinary and the most monstrous of creatures. The well-paced action cuts between Blume's Missouri present and horrific past in Georgia as the child of a psychotic teenage mother (which forms his view of treachery as the natural order and women as innately deceptive). Along the way, his slyly dropped clues&mdash;or are they red herrings?&mdash;add to the intrigue. Though one wishes that Kinder had gone lighter on some of the Southern-fried Freud, this artfully told tale of psychological suspense is as gripping as the spider webs Blume is so fond of studying. <I>(Oct.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  A PERFECT GENTLEMAN
  
  A Tenacious Trent Novel  
  
  Jane Charles
  
  Matthew Trent always knew what was expected of him and that was to become the
  Perfect Vicar and a Perfect Gentlemen. When Grace Cooper enters his life he is
  forced to face what he really wishes to become.
  
  Grace Cooper has three options for marriage available to her in the small
  village where she resides. However, Grace would rather be placed on the shelf
  than enter into a miserable union.
  
  When someone threatens her father and then makes an attempt on her life, it is
  Vicar Trent who vows to protect her and brings scandal to her doorstep,
  upsetting the delicate balance of both of their worlds.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Perfect Gentleman  
  
  By: Jane Charles
  
  Copyright © 2012 by Jane Charles  
  
  Cover Design by Lily Smith  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, locations and events are
  either a product of the author’s imagination, fictitious or used