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#	Date	Publisher	Binding	Cover
1	2009-06-01	Piatkus Books

Blurb:: At the beginning of HELD TO RANSOM, ghostwriter Lee Bartholomew returns to her old stomping ground of The Hamptons on Long Island. But there is a difference in her status. Newly married, she is on her honeymoon - but finds herself accompanied by her mother-in-law and not her husband.

As soon as she arrives, Lee is asked to babysit a 7 year old boy to whom her step-brother Rufus has offered a summer vacation as part of the Fresh Air project. Raised in the urban squalor of the Manhattan projects, Kimothy Moses (Mo), has never been to the beach before, but on his first visit - and on Lee's watch - he is kidnapped.

Soon it appears that Mo was not the target - he has been mistaken for the adopted son of a celebrity actress - and indeed he is soon found locked in a bedroom in a rental cottage off the beaten track.

But he is not alone in the cottage. In the bathroom next door lies the body of a woman.

And so, far from relaxing on her honeymoon, even when her husband finally turns up, Lee is drawn into the escalation of fear that spreads throughout the neighborhood as she begins to suspct a link between the kidnapping and the murder, a link that could pose a threat to her own life.