Book description
The cold-blooded butchery of a mother and her daughters triggers a wave
of outrage in the media. Though not immediately obvious because they are
so widely-spaced, this is just the latest in a series of bloody murders.
It takes the patient persistence of cartographer, William Huxley, to
sense a link the police have missed and slowly unravel the puzzle. Stuck
at home with the two-year-old Morwenna while his high-flying wife,
Edwina, plays with fire, William, the puzzle-solver, slowly assembles
the pieces, aided solely by a cub reporter and the valiant cleaning
lady, Mrs. P. When a prominent public figure is hacked to death, events
take a sudden sharp curve for the worse. Particularly when it rapidly
becomes clear that William is the next intended victim. Carol Smith is
the author of 11 novels for Little, Brown, most recently Fatal
Attraction, Without Warning and Vanishing Point.
