Red, Red Robin (CH)

'...Gallagher has quietly become Britain's finest popular novelist, working a dark seam between horror and the psychological thriller.' - ARENA Ruth Lasseter needs an escort for the company party to cover her affair with one of the directors. From the agency's books she chooses Tim Hagan, many years her junior. The evening passes smoothly - until Ruth ends it in her companion's bed, and what she imagines to be a one-night stand becomes something infinitely more sinister. In Hagan's mind, she is the one to rescue him from his tortured past. He begins to strip Ruth's life of those securities she values: her flat, her job, her lover and her self-respect, until they are locked into a downward spiral of naked obsession and revenge.