The Velvet Rooms - Tapa blanda

I am the shadow on the wall...You think you're safe behind your computer screen, safe to play your games, be who you want to be, act out your fantasies. But a killer can have a chatroom alter-ego, just like you can...I am the face at the window...Fat-armed Wife and Call Girl meet in The Velvet Rooms, in cyberspace. One is an overweight wife from Massachusetts, the other a tattooed, hard-living hedonist from Hull. They have fallen in love, and now, at last, they will meet in the 'Velvet Dungeon': in the real world. I am the footstep on the stairs...But Call Girl can't resist one last cyber fling, one last encounter. Newcomer Thruster is the unwitting victim. And suddenly it is no longer safe behind the screen. The real world has broken in, and what was a cruel flirtation, a joke, turns into murderous reality...

Sam North is a director with literary agency Conville & Walsh. He is the author of THE AUTOMATIC MAN, winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, CHAPEL STREET, THE GIFTING PROGRAMME, BY DESIRE, THE LIE OF THE LAND, the Man Booker-longlisted THE UNNUMBERED, and THE VELVET ROOMS.