A young woman walks home by herself, the tapping of her high heels the only sound. At two o'clock in the morning, it's cold, the streets are deserted, and she thinks she's all alone.
Waiting for her, sleeping soundly in his bed, is her baby son. When he wakes the next morning his mother still isn't back. She's never coming back. Because the streets weren't as deserted as she'd thought.
Three women are dead, and Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is searching for a serial killer.
In Houghton-le-Spring it's Feast week, a time when all hell is let loose as the fair comes to town, and a frenzy of celebration and decadence provides a temporary distraction from the grim realities of everyday life. It's not a good time to be searching for a stranger. It's not a good time to be a woman alone...
Melanie Musgrove looks forward to Houghton Feast, in an extract from Bad Moon Rising
Watch a short video in which Sheila talks about Bad Moon Rising.
Homicide in Houghton-le-Spring: Sheila Quigley at Houghton Feast
Bad Moon Rising was first published in March 2005 by Century; the Arrow paperback edition was published in January 2006. Click the links below to order it now from Amazon UK, or ask your local bookshop (quoting the ISBN will help them to find it):
The German edition of Bad Moon Rising (translated by Monica Bachler) is called Ein Mörder in unserer Stadt, and is published by dtv premium (ISBN: 978-3-423-24536-4).