Safe As Houses — Carol Anne Davis

Davis writes with dangerous authority about the deadly everyday. Her work is dark in ways that Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters can only dream of. This is our world, skewed and skewered, revealed in its true sanguinary colours." - Ian Rankin. "Lays bare the twisted soul of a psycopathic killer.... A searing, potent, unsettling story reminiscent of Ruth Rendell at her darkest" - Booklist. Davis follows up the success of her first novel with this feminist thriller. Women are vanishing from the streets of Edinburgh and only one man knows the answers. David is a sadist with a double life. He divides his time between his home-shared with his devoted wife, Jeanette, and his young son-and his Secret House. David's fantasies would become horribly real in his Secret House, where the screams would go unheard. Slowly, Jeanette begins to realize that all is not well with their home, and her husband.