THEMYSTERY OF MERCY CLOSE

Courageous, vulnerable and wasp-tongued, Helen Walsh doesnt believe in fear - its just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs. And yet shes sinking. Her work as a private investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and some old demons have resurfaced. Hired to track down boy-band member Wayne Diffney - vanished from his house in Mercy Close - she encounters hangers on, hasbeens and wannabes. Despite playing by her own rules, Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst enemy is her own head and where the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man shes never even met.