He hates them, but he loves them too. Those gorgeous, cruel young girls. That's why he worships them from afar: sending them flowers, following their every move, discovering their secrets.
And that's why, when it all goes wrong, when they fall, inevitably, from the pedestal he's erected for them, he kills them, cutting out their hearts and leaving, in its place, a single, perfect white rose.
Everything is getting too close for comfort for Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt. A killer is stalking the streets of Houghton-le-Spring, targeting young women and killing them brutally, and without mercy.
Selina, the daughter of Lorraine's partner, DS Luke Daniels, is a beautiful and wilful sixteen-year-old with a dark history. Just as it seems she's finally getting back on her feet, she's attacked. Is Selina's past catching up with her? Or could it have been the White Rose Killer?
The closer the killer gets, the more elusive he becomes. Lorraine faces her toughest case yet as her resources are tested to the limit by a killer with no conscience, no remorse. Just a pitiless hatred for the girls who inspire desire within him...
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Signing Every Breath You Take at The Bookcase in Chester-le-Street
Every Breath You Take was launched at Chester-le-Street's tiny independent bookshop, The Bookcase.
"I was amazed at the huge number of people who turned up on a usually quiet Thursday morning to meet Sheila," said The Bookcase's proprietor Eileen McKnight-Smith.
Eileen sold about 200 of Sheila's novels during the morning and said, "I must remember to order in twice as many of her next novel. In 18 years of selling books here I have known nothing like it! I even had to tell the town cryer to stop promoting the book around the town."