Twenty-seven-year-old Natalie Miller is struggling to come to terms with the death of her stepmother, Ellen, whom the police believe, but cannot prove, Natalie murdered. Natalie doesn't deny that she murdered Ellen: there are terrifying blanks in her memory, things she should remember but can't following Ellen's highly suspicious death eighteen months ago. And then, in the space of one short week, Natalie's life becomes even more of a nightmare. Not just for her, either, but for a disparate group of people whose paths cross hers, three of whom ultimately pay the price for it with their lives. She also suspects that she is being stalked by someone whom she feels she should know but can't remember from where or when. Abandoned by all of her friends, consumed with self-doubt and fearful of the renewed interest in her by the police following the savage murder of an elderly down-and-out whom she befriended while out jogging, Natalie nevertheless cannot rid herself of the feeling that despite everything that is going on around her - and for all of which she can find no explanation - her own life is never at risk. There is some other reason why she is being stalked; some other reason why she repeatedly finds a stranger, Miss Purple Painted Toenails - a teenager with plenty of attitude who seems to know more about Natalie than she does herself - waiting for her when she returns home from her daily early morning jogging sessions. Natalie has no idea why the teenager has become so determinedly involved in her life which is now spiralling rapidly out of control. She finds herself with no alternative, however, but to agree to the teenager's typically bizarre plan to bring matters to a head, only to become even more deeply embroiled in trouble when things go disastrously wrong at the last moment.
About the Author: My journey into a life of criminal intent was incubated during my years employed as a paralegal by a barrister to assist him with the preparation of briefs for his clients' cases, more often than not vitriolic divorce actions and only very occasionally murder trials. I witnessed a lot of injustice during those years and have used my love of writing crime fiction, and in particular my Mrs Charles Murder Mysteries, to redress the balance and, in a small way, make me feel a little better about all that I had seen. I left Australia for England in my twenties with high hopes of becoming a published novelist, an ambition I finally achieved, but only after a long exhausting haul as a London temp. I have published over 20 novels all of which can be viewed on my website https: //www.mignonwarner.com/ The crime fiction novels I have published in a series in E-book format include the Mrs Charles Murder Mysteries, the East End Nine-to-Five Shelter Gangster thrillers and "Customer Trago" which is a romantic historical thriller set in Tudor Cornwall featuring the adventures of Customer Trago. I have also published in E-book format three romantic thrillers - "The Butcher Bird", "Breakfast at Norman's" and "With Devils Dwell - a horror novel."The Lopinot Dollmaker", a psychological suspense novel, "The Ringer", and the first two children's adventure books in the Daniel trilogy. I am currently publishing all of my E-books in paperback. My husband and I share our lives with two delightfully loving retired racing greyhounds, Dylan and Gez, both of whom would much prefer that I spend a lot less time glued to a computer screen, writing books, and more with taking them out for long walks along the rugged North Cornwall coastal paths near our home.