Lovely Day to Die - 'Irresistible' (Val McDermid)

Spine-chilling tales for dark nights from Celia Fremlin, ‘Britain’s Patricia Highsmith’ (Sunday Times) who is ''Irresistible'' (Val McDermid), ''brilliant'' (Elly Griffiths), ''a master of suspense'' (Janice Hallett), ''packs a punch'' (Ian Rankin) and ''got me hooked'' (Ruth Rendell)

And then, suddenly, like a great yellow sea-monster rising from the deep, her mother''s face lurched upwards, grimacing, contorted . . .

Welcome to Celia Fremlin''s nightmare world: from idyllic cottages to cruise ship holidays, seaside weekends to school sports days, nothing is as it seems. Whether a trip to Dead Man''s Rock or a reports of flying saucers in suburban gardens, Fremlin reveals the uncanny lurking beneath our everyday lives – revenge, family feuds, murder and ghosts are never far away …