Review
Ronald Trimm is a moderately successful antiques dealer married to Nancy - who's ambitious, meticulous, and frigid. So poor frustrated Ronald confines his lust to porno mags until a chance encounter with Dorothea Wyatt (a drunk and willing widow) triggers more violent emotions. Dorothea sobers up, however, refusing a repeat performance - so Ronald embarks on a series of carefully planned rapes, two of which end in murder. And Detective Constable Cooley, who becomes romantically interested in rape victim #1, will have to enact a last-minute rescue to save 16-year-old Lynn Norton - who's next on the rapist's list. Solidly built suspense, sympathetic character portraits: a competent but hardly fresh treatment of a hackneyed, dreary theme. (Kirkus Reviews)
Financial Times
'A star in our galaxy of crime writers' (Financial Times)
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