The whispering wall - Patricia Carlon

'Carlon proves herself as masterful a wielder of suspense as Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell and Margaret Millar' - Publishing News Sarah Oatland, confined to her bed by a stroke, is cloaked in an atmosphere of claustrophobic menace and surrounded by a particularly unpleasant group of individuals plotting against her. They assume that because she canot communicate that she doesn't understand but she is only too aware of their intentions and is determined to foil their plans. Masterly, suspenseful, this an excruciatingly exact study in terror.