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‘One of the bad girls of gritty crime’ Daily Mirror
It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning . . .
A single mother who left a six-year-old on his own while she went clubbing on a Friday night. An absent father with a hot teenaged girlfriend who didn’t seem to care who was minding his former family. The police, the neighbours, the friends, the lovers turn accusing eyes on them both. Suspicious voices ask whether Nicky has run away; whether the fire is really an accident.
And meanwhile, time is running out for Nicky.
‘A cracking read that will chill you to the bone’ Sun on Two-Faced
‘Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel’ Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not
It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning . . .
A single mother who left a six-year-old on his own while she went clubbing on a Friday night. An absent father with a hot teenaged girlfriend who didn’t seem to care who was minding his former family. The police, the neighbours, the friends, the lovers turn accusing eyes on them both. Suspicious voices ask whether Nicky has run away; whether the fire is really an accident.
And meanwhile, time is running out for Nicky.
‘A cracking read that will chill you to the bone’ Sun on Two-Faced
‘Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel’ Martina Cole on Forget-Me-Not
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'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone.'
'One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a blinder.'
Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel.
'A glamorous nightclub hides a seedy underworld that Heller knows only too well.'
Gripping . . . powerful writing.
Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins.
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