In 1985: a man runs for his life - exhausted, wounded, hunted remorselessly by a woman assassin known only as The Head Hunter. At the end, he has just enough energy to spit in her face.
In 2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win and she runs to forget.
When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate. Kerry and Lorraine, different ages and from different worlds, come together when Claire Lumsdon, Kerry's sister, is violently kidnapped - the fourth in a series of abductions of young girls.
Headstrong, wilful and convinced the police can't help, Kerry sets out on a frantic search of her own. But her hunt takes her to a world she never knew existed: a violent underworld; a sixteen year old murder; and, finally, to secrets about her own past which her mother hoped she'd never have to face.
And all the time, the clock is ticking for Claire.
Meet the Lumsdens: read an extract from Run for Home.
Watch a short video in which Sheila talks about Run for Home.
Run for Home was first published in March 2004 by Century; the Arrow paperback came out in January 2005. You can order it now, from Amazon UK (by clicking the links below) or from your local bookshop:
The German edition of Run for Home (translated by Monica Bachler) is called Lauf nach Hause, and is published by dtv premium (ISBN: 978-3-423-24462-6).