There lies your love Mandasue Heller desperate to buy a way

desperate to buy a way out of Quurs slums

But as Valery begins his work

reading bedtime stories to sleep-starved children

The economy is sliding into recession

'Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post

There lies your love Mandasue Heller desperate to buy a wayIn Deerham Hills a girl is missing and another suspected of harming her. An older woman is found dead: murder or suicide? Then there are the terrifying letters sent to Tom Gilroy, another suicide case, and a Peeping Tom. Charmian Daniels, Jennie Melville's policewoman heroine, has all this to cope with: and she meets again the London policeman Robert Ascham, and finds him even more attractive and disturbing than before.