The Breaker (Paperback)

'...a masterful combination of suspense, mystery and psychology...in short, another triumph.' Canberra Times Ms Walters plots so carefully, intelligently and subtly that the reader submits eagerly to the tangle of leads.' SHE A woman's brutally damaged body washes up on a lonely beach. twelve hours later, her three-year-old daughter is found, wandering abandoned twenty miles away from her mother. Why was Kate Sumner murdered, yet her child, a witness, allowed to live? Police investigation centres on a young actor, a loner who lies about his relationship with Kate. And what of her? Is she the 'respectable' woman her husband claims her to be? And why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick her up? With her first five novels, The Ice House (1991), The Sculptress (1993), The Scold's Bridle (1994), The Dark Room (1995) and The Echo (1997), Minette Walters has established herself as one of the most exciting crime fiction writers today. Her award-winning novels have been adapted for television by the BBC and have been screened in Australia and New Zealand.