Walters, Minette

Muna is treated as a slave by the Songoli family, cooking and cleaning for them and confined to a dark, windowless cellar at all other times. She is badly beaten and tortured by them until the day the younger son fails to come home from school.

A young woman, having come upon her neighbor, known as "Mad Annie" lying in a gutter seconds from death one rainy evening, becomes obsessed with proving Annie was murdered.

"In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense , a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as interested as Michael in finding out who died in her garage. They have no idea that this simple story will unveil a web of deceit that is as appalling as the people behind it."--back cover.

A woman doctor in an English village finds herself the center of some nasty attention from police as well as villagers. The will of a murdered woman names her the sole benficiary and people assume she killed her. By the author of The Sculptress.