Some people find it hard to trust Robin Allbeury, a wealthy lawyer and an expert on marital secrets. Allbeury runs an unorthodox sideline, helping troubled wives escape from their abusive marriages.

For some women, help comes too late. Women like Lynne Bolsover, wife and mother of two, whose battered body lies beneath sacking on a Hertfordshire allotment. A victim of a brutish husband, or so it would seem...

And then there are women like Lizzie Piper. A successful cookery writer and mother of three, married to Christopher Wade, Lizzie is regarded as a very lucky woman. Everyone assumes that Christopher, eminent surgeon, philanthropist and loving father, must head Lizzie's list of blessings. But no one really knows what goes on inside a marriage. Or what can happen behind closed doors...

‘Norman 's thrillers are consistently good and this
maintains the suspense right through to the end.'
Sunday Mirror

‘Her books blend contemporary women's fiction and the
menace and pace of the thriller in a winning combination'
Cath Staincliffe, Manchester Evening News

Published by Piatkus Books 2003 in hardback, trade and mass market paperback

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