Once when Benet was about fourteen she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage - and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife.

It was some time since Benet had seen her psychologically disturbed mother. So when Mopsa arrived at the airport looking drab and colourless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tried not to hate her.

A psychological thriller about three mothers bound by a thread of terror from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Readers of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will be hooked...

'Rendell's psychological novels remain in a class of their own' -- Sunday Telegraph
'The web is spun with fiendish skill' -- Observer
'Domestic dramas exploding into deaths and murders...threads are drawn tightly together in a lethal last pattern' -- Sunday Times
'A cleverly written and intriguing book' -- ***** Reader review
'Ruth Rendell at the height of her powers. This book really merits the description: "unputdownable."' -- ***** Reader review
'Allow time to read this as you won't want to put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'Compulsive reading - I couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review

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When Benet was about fourteen, she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage - and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife.

It has been some time since Benet had seen her psychologically disturbed mother. So when Mopsa arrives at the airport looking drab and colourless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tries not to hate her.

But when the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder in which three women are pushed to psychological extremes, family ties are strained to the absolute limit...