The Jealous One - 'Britain's Patricia Highsmith'

A classic psychological thriller from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: ''Britain''s Patricia Highsmith'' and the ''grandmother of psycho-domestic noir'' (Sunday Times)

''Brilliant ... So witty and clever.'' Elly Griffiths
''Fremlin packs a punch.'' Ian Rankin
''Irresistible.'' Val McDermid
''Splendid ... Got me hooked.'' Ruth Rendell
''A master of suspense.'' Janice Hallett

Lindy had a lovely voice. It rose into the summer darkness clear and true as a nightingale; or was it, rather, like a bird of prey?

Rosamund wakes up from her mid-morning nap to find, to her delight, that she is running a temperature. Surely that explains her blinding headache, and the weird, delirious dream in which she had murdered her overly seductive neighbour - the Other Woman - in a vengeful act of jealousy? A great relief, then, to find this was merely the nightmarish work of a fevered imagination. Until her husband exclaims, ‘Rosamund! Have you any idea what’s happened to Lindy? She’s disappeared!…’