Point of Violence

1966 novel by Lois Duncan

LanguageEnglish

Genre

Thriller
realism^[1]

PublisherDoubleday^[2]

Point of Violence
First edition
Author	Lois Duncan
Language	English
Genre	Thriller realism^[1]
Publisher	Doubleday^[2]

Point of Violence is a 1966 thriller novel by Lois Duncan.^[3]^[4] It is one of Duncan's few novels written primarily for adults.^[5] It follows a young widow who finds herself being stalked while hiding at a remote beach house after the murder of her husband.

Julia Culler, a recent widow after her husband, Mark, died in a water skiing accident, relocates with her two children to a house on Heron Key, suspicious of a man whom she believes is responsible for her husband's death. At her remote beach home, she finds herself being stalked by an unseen assailant.

References

↑ "Lois Duncan, James Ellroy: MWA Grand Masters". Mystery Scene Magazine. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
↑ Drew, Bernard Alger (1997). The 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-563-08615-1.
↑ Writers Directory. Springer. 1983. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-349-03650-9.
↑ "Lois Duncan". The Alliance for the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature at Rhode Island College (ric.edu). February 9, 2006. Retrieved May 8, 2007.
↑ Weinman, Sarah (June 17, 2016). "Duncan's Teenage Screams". The New Republic. Retrieved June 7, 2017.

External links

Point of Violence at Fantastic Fiction

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Novels	Love Song for Joyce (1958) Debutante Hill (1958) A Promise for Joyce (1959) The Middle Sister (1960) Game of Danger (1962) Season of the Two-Heart (1965) Point of Violence (1966) Ransom (1966) They Never Came Home (1968) Major Andre, Brave Enemy (1968) Peggy (1970) Hotel for Dogs (1971) A Gift of Magic (1971) I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973) When the Bough Breaks (1973) Down a Dark Hall (1974) Summer of Fear (1976) Killing Mr. Griffin (1978) Daughters of Eve (1979) Stranger with My Face (1981) The Third Eye (1984) Locked in Time (1985) The Twisted Window (1987) Don't Look Behind You (1989) Gallows Hill (1997) News for Dogs (2009) Movie for Dogs (2010)
Picture books	The Littlest One in the Family (1959) Silly Mother (1962) Giving Away Suzanne (1962) The Terrible Tales of Happy Days School (1983) Horses of Dreamland (1985) Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher The Birthday Moon (1989) The Circus Comes Home (1993) The Magic of Spider Woman (1996) The Longest Hair in the World (1999) I Walk at Night (2000) Song of the Circus (2002)
Nonfiction	How to Write and Sell Your Personal Experiences (1979) Chapters: My Growth as a Writer (1982) Who Killed My Daughter? (1992) Psychic Connections (1995) One to the Wolves (2013)
Poetry collections	From Spring to Spring (1983) Seasons of the Heart (2007)
Film adaptations	Summer of Fear (1978) I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) Killing Mr. Griffin (1997) I've Been Waiting for You (1998) Don't Look Behind You (1999) Held for Ransom (2000) Hotel for Dogs (2009) Stranger with My Face (2009) Down a Dark Hall (2018)

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