“A dream has haunted nineteen-year-old Meg for ten years, ever since her mother’s death. “The suspense is wonderfully sustained and leads to a terrifying climax, and there is even a satisfying love story” Publisher’s Weekly But irresistibly Meg was drawn back to Penlaggen…back into a forgotten past… And waiting for her was a man who exercised a strange and fearful power over her…and a secret that led her ever closer to danger” Fiction Database “Young, beautiful, talented, engaged to a handsome and successful stockbroker, she should have been content to stay in London.

“A cunning thriller romance, with the ever popular suspense and terror… good holiday reading for the not so bookish” Elaine Moss, Times She meets a young man called Toby, who is different from her staid fiancé, but how is he wrapped up in the secrets she is unravelling?įirst written as a short suspense story in the 1960’s, this YA romantic thriller went on to win an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Joan Aiken in 1972 And now beautiful young Caroline Conroy, who has returned to her. There she becomes involved in a nightmare web of terror and suspense. One old lady had fallen and broken her neck the others had died in hit-and-run accidents. Meg follows a clue from the past to a remote Cornish Village.

and at night she is haunted by a strange dream of a face which she is sure has something to do with her past. When Meg Frazer’s actress mother is killed in a Hollywood accident, nineteen-year-old Meg finds it hard to adapt to life in Britain with her cold, distant father.

Night Fall by Joan Aiken