'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others' New York Times Book Review
'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation. He had never planned a murder before . . . Only sheer necessity was making him do it now . . .' Coincidence couldn't explain the three accidental deaths. It had to be something more - something sinister? One old lady had fallen and broken her neck; the others had died in hit-and-run accidents. And now beautiful young Caroline Conroy, who has returned to her poisonous family after a mysterious tragedy abroad, must face the enemy: a smiling stranger who is calmly and ruthlessly planning her destruction.
'Terrifyingly enclosed spine-chiller' Sunday Telegraph