Turning Nasty

Maggie Hazeldean is killed in an arson attack, just days before her first appointment with psychologist Anna McColl...

The arson is carefully done, and it was almost ruled as accident.

Nobody can see a plausible motive for anyone to kill Maggie.

Who would do such a thing?

The locals put it down to racists, or just kids playing around.

But, could it be something more?

Anna begins to counsel Maggie’s fifteen-year-old son who shows a disturbing lack of emotion with regard to his mother’s murder.

Some of Anna’s other clients are also shrouded in mystery and Anna’s friends seem to add nothing but more questions to her thoughts.

As more and more ‘coincidental accidents’ start to occur, it starts to feel like somebody is targeting the Hazeldeans, but is that possible?

Was the reason behind Maggie’s murder deeper than anyone could have realised?

When Anna begins piecing together the network of lies and half-truths they lead her into a terrifying confrontation with the one person who knows for certain why Maggie had to die…

Turning Nasty is a complex murder mystery tackling bereavement, friendship, and murder.

Praise for Penny Kline

“Economically but fluently crafted” - Evening Post

Penny Kline taught in a London school. She then re-trained and worked in a health centre, seeing patients with psychological or emotional problems. Later she ran the Student Counselling Service at Exeter University. She has written six crime novels about Bristol psychologist, Anna McColl, and also had radio plays broadcast on Radio 4. She currently lives in Bristol.