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My husband´s lover. They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them . . . until now.

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My husband´s lover. They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them . . . until now.

Carmen is happily married to Tom, a successful London lawyer and divorcé with three children. She is content to absorb the stresses of being a stepmother to teenagers and the stain of ´second wife´. She knows she´ll always live in the shadow of another woman - not Tom´s first wife Laura, who is resolutely polite and determinedly respectable, but the lover that ended his first marriage: Zena. Zena who was shockingly beautiful. Zena who drowned swimming late one night.

But Carmen can overlook her husband´s dead mistress . . . until she starts to suspect that he might have been the person who killed her.

´Absolutely gripping, I raced through Undertow at the speed of knots´ Rosamund Lupton.

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An immersing story, reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier´s Rebecca . . . The "hidden currents" that keep us submerged in Undertow are not only those of the sea, but the fear and suspicion that swell catastrophically through the most intimate relationships Observer

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Heathcote, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Heathcote has worked as a feature writer and editor on newspapers and magazines for many years. Her jobs have included women´s editor and deputy features editor at the Independent on Sunday, as well as freelance feature writing for publications such as the Independent, Observer, Guardian, Marie Claire and Red. She is presently associate editor at Psychologies magazine. Elizabeth´s home is southeast London, where she lives with her partner and two children.

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