Murder of Innocence - Softcover

Heley, Veronica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906288321 ISBN 13: 9781906288327

Publisher: Ostara Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

'Smoke seeped under the door. She'd always been afraid of fire. She got the boy to help her, and in the dark they felt around for something, anything, to prevent the smoke suffocating them. Any old towel would do. The sides of the door fitted pretty well. Not so much smoke came in now. Would it be better to die of suffocation than to burn alive? Ellie tried the door again, and again. Immovable. The house was empty except for the two of them, shut into that tiny room with no means of escape. There was no window, and the fire was gaining ground around them. It would be easy to give way to hysteria. Calm down. How long since that fiend in human form had shut them in? How long would it take for the fire to reach her ... or the smoke to suffocate her ... and the boy? Breathing wasn't getting any easier ...'

Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her newly single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her; Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit, the builders working on her new conservatory and her elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing.

Ellie is very fond of Tod, and his disappearance shocks her to the core. Before she knows it, Ellie is caught up in a police investigation that casts a horribly sinister shadow over her respectable, close-knit community...

About this title

About the Author

Veronica Heley is married to a probation officer with a musician daughter and is actively involved in her local church and community affairs. Veronica Heley lives in Ealing, West London. She is the author of two previous Ellie Quicke novels, Murder at the Altar and Murder by Suicide and nearly 50 other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ostara Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906288321
• ISBN 13: 9781906288327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204