Its success meant that she could give up her day job and concentrate on writing full time.įletcher J. Whilst working as a beauty therapist and bringing up her three children together with her husband, Casey penned her debut novel Rotten to the Core. But how long can I stay here, undetected, pretending to be someone I’m not? And if the children end up in danger, what will I have to do to save them…?īorn in Cuckfield, West Sussex, Casey Kelleher grew up as an avid reader and a huge fan of author Martina Cole. Because history has a horrible way of repeating itself, and I’ll do everything I can to protect these children. They are scared of her, and rightly so.Īs my memories start to crystalize, I am ever more determined to shelter them from harm. She is not the mother these children deserve. Cecelia is angry, unpredictable, unstable. Maybe, being in the house every day and night, I will remember more, uncover more, about the secret that haunts me…īut this family is not the happy one it appears from the outside. And when Cecelia, the mother, mistakes me for the new nanny, I seize the chance to move in. Going back to the house where I was born, I find a family living the life I’d always dreamed of. I’ll have to do whatever it takes to find out for myself. But, with her death, any chance of knowing the truth has disappeared.

My mother revealed a terrible, dangerous secret in her last letter to me. Everything I thought I knew about my life is a lie.

The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead