Publisher's Synopsis
For some months leafy, gentryfied West London has been terrorized by a rapist who attacks young women living alone. One day in the crescent, a man is found battered to death. Is he the rapist? And who is the murderer? Could it be smart, intelligent Eliza Jekyll, or scatty, grey-haired cat lover Mrs Hyde?;Emma Tennant has written several books including "The Colour of Rain", "The Adventures of Robina", Black Marina", "The Crack", "Hotel de Dream" and "The Last of the Country House Murders".