Nobody But UsSteven Harding is a handsome, well respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide eyed young college student. Together, they are driving south from New York, for their first holiday: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of them, the promise of long, dark nights and the chance to explore one another's bodies, away from disapproving eyes. It should be a perfect, romantic trip for two. EXCEPT THAT HE'S NOT WHO HE SAYS HE IS. BUT THEN

she may not like what she finds

the brains behind the Union - and settle a score from many years ago

working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen

They're offering to pay for her flights

Joseph Dryden

But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about something behind the fireplace

from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores

Inspector Alleyn shudders to think of the body-count to come

From the author of A Place of Greater Safety

Alex is certain it's a bad idea

from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as 'P&O 1930' and 'Not Yet the Dodo'

and finally with the newspaper's legal expert