In the wooded copse beyond a London commons, a dead body is
discover by daytime TV presenter Gaby Mortimer during her
morning run. Gaby starts out as a witness, but soon becomes
a suspect. As more and more evidence points to her, Gaby is
eventually arrested as the murderer. With no support from
her distant, distracted workaholic husband, Gaby muddles
through the terrible mess of her life alone. That is until
an investigative reporter befriends her and works at
proving her innocence. It soon becomes apparent that all is
not as it seems -- about the murder and about Gaby's life
Told from a first-person point of view in the present
tense, UNDER YOUR SKIN by Sabine Durrant offers up a
shrewd murder mystery with enough ingenious twists to keep
readers interested as they make their way through lots of
British vernacular to a shocking ending.
In this page-turning debut from talented crime writer
Sabine Durrant, a woman makes a chilling discovery in the
woods that changes her life forever.
When clever, pretty, successful Gaby Mortimer discovers the
dead body of a young woman near her house, she has no idea
that her apparently happy, secure, charmed life is about to
go into sickening freefall—and that soon she will be living
by the mantra of the police detective investigating the
murder case: ABC: Assume Nothing, Believe No One, Check
Everything…