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Nothing to Fear by Matthew D'Ancona

In this very English chiller, which I lapped up, Ginny is a recently divorced lady in her thirties who buys a house and hopes to start a new life as a writer. Her subject: the Brothers Grimm. Her exhusband: foaming at the mouth. Her next-door neighbour: a strange man, with pale skin and a quiff, who likes to paint in the style of the Old Masters. One day, Ginny's crazed ex, Harry, comes round and threatens her, but she's saved by the be-quiffed neighbour, who beats Harry to a pulp.

Ginny finds herself more and more aroused by this man, who goes by the name of Sean. And then she sees something so terrifying that she feels she must sell the house, and never come back. Although, if Sean is who she thinks he is, there can be no hiding place.

Synopsis by Foyles.co.uk

For Ginny, the new house represents a new start: a room of her own where she can research her book on the psychology of fairytales and recover from a bitter divorce. The last thing she's looking for is romance. But her young neighbour breaks down her defences. Sean cooks her delicious meals and rescues her from a drunken attack by her ex-husband. His only eccentricity is the locked room in his house that he forbids her to enter. It can't contain anything sinister, can it? Ginny can't resist finding out. But when she opens the door, she is propelled into a horror story, rather than a fairytale.

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