'A masterwork.' Time Out

Here, from the much-feted author of Love and Death on Long Island and The Death of the

Author, is an unputdownable thriller in the Hitchcockian tradition which makes only one

demand of the reader: a willingness to be bewitched.

'What disturbs is the sheer elegance of Adair's prose style - most of us had probably forgotten that English could be written so well. Literary Review

'A thrilling story...Longrigg brings to life the drama and complexity of a distorted moral

world...A horrifying tour de force.' Guardian

'Longrigg has interviewed magistrates and police investigators. She has talked to women,

now living under witness-protection programmes, who have testified against former associates...Her industriousness and courage have been rewarded with a wealth of lurid anecdotes. Her book is a welter of stories, variously horrific, pathetic or simply astonishing for the picture they evoke of a parallel state.' Sunday Times