Betrayal by Kay Burley (From Worcester News)

Betrayal by Kay Burley

11:40am Thursday 31st May 2012 in Books

NEW FICTION

Betrayal by Kay Burley is published in paperback by HarperCollins, priced £7.99. Available now.

With her second novel, you can garner a clear idea as to the trajectory Kay Burley's writing career is going.

It's surely on the upward trend, as the well-known Sky newsreader continues with the well-trodden yet popular route of politics, sex and aristocracy versus nouveau riche clashes.

The young and idealistic Lily Dunlop is angered by the fact that her late father, "the oik-done-good" Joseph, may have dealt her a cruel blow and that her mother, Lady Catherine, has retained a devastating secret, leading to possible earth-shattering ramifications.

However, toss in a rich Arab royal family with a misogynistic prince at its head, a siege inside a Mayfair security vault, a group of cartoon-styled media tycoons, with only ambition and sex on their minds, and a stereotypical collective of hard-drinking working types on the peripheral and only disappointment springs to mind.

Betrayal is a page-turner, but not a very good one.

6/10
(Review by Denise Bailey)