'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald Tribune
In the quiet suburb of Santa Monica, eighty-eight-year-old Mabel Foster loses her husband to a stroke. Rather than move Mabel into a retirement home, the neighbours hire Josephine Slaney to take care of her. The immense nurse is a godsend, the cost of her help is a bargain.
Soon it becomes clear, however, that all is not right with Josephine. Mrs Foster, once bright and alert, falls quickly into a torpor and retreats into seclusion at Josephine's command. It is up to detective Dan Valentine to uncover a strange, lethal pattern among Josephine's former patients, and the race is on to stop her before she can strike again.
- ISBN10 1471914291
- ISBN13 9781471914294
- Publish Date 14 October 2014 (first published 1 July 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Murder Room
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 240
- Language English