Begars Abbey - V.L. Valentine Crime will have you hooked' STYLIST

will have you hooked' STYLIST `As exuberant as it is sharp' iNEWS `A sweeping and irreverent tale' BBC `Gloriously engrossing' TASH AW

and uncertainty in her own path to parenthood

The coldness of a gun against my skin

she thought they were the good guys

there's an undeniable attraction simmering between them

Begars Abbey - V.L. Valentine Crime will have you hooked' STYLISTA dark gothic delight' JANICE HALLETT, author of THE TWYFORD CODE'Inventive, lavish, twisty will keep you guessing until the very end' ALISON LITTLEWOOD, author of MISTLETOEWinter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left. Her mother is dead, she has no prospects, and she cannot afford the rent. But as she goes through her mother's things, Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family