Snatched - Mandasue Heller

In Mandasue Heller's gripping new suspense novel a girl disappears - and suspicion rips through a family and a neighbourhood.

It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning . . .

A single mother who left a six-year-old on his own while she went clubbing on a Friday night. An absent father with a hot teenaged girlfriend who didn't seem to care who was minding his former family. The police, the neighbours, the friends, the lovers turn accusing eyes on them both. Suspicious voices ask whether Nicky has run away; whether the fire is really an accident.

And meanwhile, time is running out for Nicky.

Bestselling author Martina Cole loved Mandasue Heller's second novel, Forget Me Not . She wrote, 'Mandasue has played a real blinder with this fantastic novel.' Now thousands of readers have discovered Mandasue Heller.

Mandasue Heller was born in Cheshire and moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in the notorious Hulme Crescents which have since become the background to her novels. Not only is she a talented writer, but she has also sung in cabaret and rock groups, seventies soul cover bands and blues jam bands.

'A cracking read that will chill you to the bone.'

'One of the bad girls of gritty crime, Heller has written a blinder.'

Martina Cole on FORGET ME NOT

'A glamorous nightclub hides a seedy underworld that Heller knows only too well.'

Gripping . . . powerful writing.

Cracking page-turner . . . a gritty compassionate account of life on the margins.

Alarming . . . beguiling . . . exhilarating.