'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel' Martina Cole

Lisa lives too close for comfort to Westy Lane. Too many women have been murdered on that road, each left with a tiny blue flower on their bodies. She can't help but wonder if her mother might be next. After all, people don't care if women like her mother go missing. There's no one to protect them.

And then everything changes...

One night, Benny arrives in Lisa's life. He's tall, dark, and the most gorgeous man she's ever seen. But he is not all as he seems. While Lisa savours true love, Benny wants more from her than she will ever know...

Mandasue has played a real blinder with this great novel * Martina Cole on Forget Me Not *
Exhilarating * Scotsman *
The complicated plot is taut, the pace brisk. In all a very fine debut novel. More, please. * Shots on The Front *
Alarming and beguiling...curiously exhilarating. * The Scotsman on The Front *
A confident take on the serial murder genre. * Irish News - Belfast *
Powerful writing * Scotland on Sunday *
One novel not to be forgotten in a hurry. * Belfast Newsletter *
Gripping * Scotland on Sunday *

Before Mandasue Heller became a writer, she was a singer and an actress. She now writes full time, selling over 1 million copies of her Sunday Times bestselling character-driven and compulsive crime fiction. The Child will be her twenty-first novel.