A hugely entertaining murder mystery-cum-romantic-suspense with a really likeable central character, Lee, and terrific pace. She is a ghost writer working on the biography of an American soap-opera star when strange fires start occurring round her dilapidated house in Notting Hill ….
Although she loves her boyfriend Tommy, Lee is suffering from commitment phobia because, as a ghost-writer, she values her privacy above all else…and she can’t bear his mess. At the same time, though, she doesn’t really like living alone in her big, creaky old house in Notting Hill. But whilst Lee is tries to remain in denial about the state of her crumbling home, a neighbour is suddenly killed in a fire, and it looks like arson. Then there is a second fire and a second murder closer to home and Lee finds herself drawn into a murder investigation. As her precious privacy comes under increasing pressure from all sides, could it be that Lee herself is in danger?
Hope McIntyre is the pseudonym of well-known author and editor Caroline Upcher. She has worked in film, publishing, and journalism. She is the author of Falling for Mr. Wrong, The Visitor's Book, and Grace and Favor. She wrote two novels pseudonymously as Carly McIntyre (Next of Kin and Saskia) as well as Naomi Campbell's novel, Swan. Formerly of London, she now lives in Amagansett, New York.