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A contemporary London-set crime novel from the author of the the Peculiar Crimes Unit series. € Sex and the City meets the modern crime thriller. € Apartment-sitting in a luxury penthouse goes horribly wrong for June Cryer when a young girl breaks into the apartment only to be horribly murdered and June must find the killer, before he finds her.

June Cryer is a shopaholic suburban housewife trapped in a lousy marriage. After discovering her husband€s infidelity with her flight attendant neighbour, Hilary €˜Boarding From The Rear€ Cooper, she loses her home, her husband and her credit rating. € Then her best pal Lou offers a solution; a mutual friend needs someone reliable to act as caretaker in a spectacular London high-rise apartment. It€s just for the weekend, but there€s good money in it€¦ Seizing the opportunity to escape, June moves into the penthouse only to find that there€s no electricity and the phones don€t work. She must flat-sit until the security system comes back on. When a terrified girl breaks into the flat and June makes the mistake of asking the neighbours for help, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating nightmare, trying to prove that a murderer exists. Over the next 24 hours she must survive on the streets without friends or money, solve an impossible crime, and fight off the urge to buy a new wardrobe. € Christopher Fowler€s cult novel features a foreword by Joanne Harris. € €˜The dark reverse of a personal growth novel, a hoot of a crime thriller.€ Literary Editor, The Independent.