The next thrilling novel from the bestselling author of Run for Home and Bad Moon Rising

He watches them from afar. He knows who they are and where they are. He is waiting in the dark...A stranger stalks the streets of Houghton le Spring and he is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt. Selina, the daughter of Lorraine's partner, DS Luke Daniels, is a beautiful and wilful sixteen year-old with a dark past. Just as it seems she's finally getting back on her feet, she's attacked. Is Selina's past catching up with her? Or is there an even more sinister motive to the assault?Before long, Lorraine and Luke's worst fears are realised, and a body is found. A young woman, brutally murdered, her heart cut out, and in its place - a single white rose. Soon the White Rose Killer steps up his campaign. Is DI Hunt imagining it, or does he have a message specially for her? As he circles ever closer, nobody escapes suspicion and Lorraine faces her toughest case yet. The closer the killer gets, the more elusive he becomes. Lorraine is tested to the limit by a killer with no conscience, no remorse. Just a pitiless hatred for the girls who inspire desire within him...

The next thrilling novel from the bestselling author of Run for Home and Bad Moon Rising

He watches them from afar. He knows who they are and where they are. He is waiting in the dark...

A stranger stalks the streets of Houghton le Spring and he is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt.

Selina, the daughter of Lorraine?s partner, DS Luke Daniels, is a beautiful and wilful sixteen year-old with a dark past.Just as it seems she?s finally getting back on her feet, she?s attacked.Is Selina?s past catching up with her? Or is there an even more sinister motive to the attack?

Before long, Lorraine and Luke?s worst fears are realised, and a body is found. A young woman, brutally murdered, her heart cut out, and in its place ? a single white rose.

Soon the White Rose Killer steps up his campaign. Is DI Hunt imagining it, or does he have a message specially for her?As he circles ever closer, nobody escapes suspicion and Lorraine faces her toughest case yet.

He watches them from afar. He knows who they are and where they are. He is waiting in the dark...

A stranger stalks the streets of Houghton le Spring and he is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt.

Selina, the daughter of Lorraine?s partner, DS Luke Daniels, is a beautiful and wilful sixteen year-old with a dark past.Just as it seems she?s finally getting back on her feet, she?s attacked.Is Selina?s past catching up with her? Or is there an even more sinister motive to the attack?

Before long, Lorraine and Luke?s worst fears are realised, and a body is found. A young woman, brutally murdered, her heart cut out, and in its place ? a single white rose.

Soon the White Rose Killer steps up his campaign. Is DI Hunt imagining it, or does he have a message specially for her?As he circles ever closer, nobody escapes suspicion and Lorraine faces her toughest case yet.

PRAISE FOR SHEILA QUIGLEY

'A real page-turner'
Woman

'Fast-paced'
Daily Telegraph

'A rattling good plot...it doesn't stop running until the final page by which time you will be breathless'
Newcastle Upon Tyne Journal

Sheila Quigley:
Sheila Quigley started work at 15 as a presser in Hepworths, a tailoring factory. She married at eighteen and had three daughters: Dawn, Janine and Diane and a younger son, Michael. Recently divorced, she now has eight grandchildren, and every Saturday, and Sunday can be found at a football match for the Darlington Academy under thirteens and the Northern League. Sheila has lived in Houghton-le-Spring near Sunderland for thirty years.

2008-01-01 Let down by poor editing

I have read all Sheila Quigley's books and I like the characters and setting. This book was an enjoyable enough read, but it was let down by many small errors all the way through the book. There were lots of sentences which had been broken up with commas when a semi-colon or two sentences would have worked better, and mistakes with small words, eg. "an" instead "and" and "Why" instead of "What". It's fine for the characters' speech to be written as they would say it, but the rest of the novel should be in correct English. I know this sounds really picky but these repeated errors were very off-putting. If Sheila Quigley's next book seems as rushed as this one, it will be a waste of her likeable cast of characters.