The Last Room Below

Briar House sells perfect days. Ruth Calder has been hired to make sure the next one happens.

By lunchtime she has called for outside help. The caterer isn't coming, the owner wants money he cannot account for, and his sister has abruptly stopped answering her phone. Everyone has an explanation. None of them will let Ruth hear it from the woman herself.

Ruth has reassured the wrong people before. This time she will ask the awkward question, even if it costs her the job.

Her report is still active when a voice asks for help behind a narrow window below the house.

Set over one increasingly dangerous working day, The Last Room Below is a compact, standalone thriller about loyalty used as a threat, the price of a reassuring lie, and an ordinary woman's decision not to walk away.