Monster Love

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, Monster Love by Carol Topolski is a dark and deathly literary thriller.

''I''ve kicked myself that I didn''t do anything about it then. I''ve often thought, what if I had? Would she be alive now?'' Charlotte, neighbour

''I wonder at how gullible I was . . . because when I asked them if I could see Samantha, just for the record, she said she was playing a...