Bad Timing

Prison doctor Anne Vernon never much liked Ivor Taplin when he was serving a four-year jail sentence for assaulting his wife. But, on his release, Anne discovers that he was in fact a battered husband who only turned on his wife in extremes, after enduring many violent attacks.Feeling sorry for Taplin, Anne offers him a job refurbishing her house once he is out of prison. Then, while she is away in Bath with her new lover and boss Tom Melville, she receives a phone call. Hilly, her six-year-old daughter, has disappeared. Is she lost? Has she been snatched? Or, more likely, has Taplin, who so desperately wanted a child of his own, kidnapped her? Racing back to Kingstown to help the police in their search, Anne prays that they can track down her daughter’s abductor and find Hilly before it is too late.