After returning from the Easter break Sal Kilkenny is faced with three challenges: coping with her daughter's sudden reluctance to go to school, investigating offensive poison pen letters being sent to receptionist Lucy Barker and doing routine surveillance work for a couple who are looking for some background information to assist them in their house purchase. Unfortunately, as Sal prepares to stake out the streets, a cold snap plunges the country into arctic conditions. Her stress levels are not helped by the escalation of the campaign against Lucy Barker and her inability to nail the perpetrator who maddeningly avoids capture. On the home front, her daughter's continued unhappiness is troubling. And when Sal's normally mundane surveillance duties bring her face to face with a grim discovery and violent crime she's sure that it just can't get any worse before it gets better. Unluckily for Sal there is more than one surprise in store for her and a nightmarish sequence of events may well turn out to be a matter of life and death...Stylish, engrossing and emotional, "Bitter Blue" is the latest thrilling novel in the critically acclaimed series featuring Manchester private eye Sal Kilkenny.