Description

She was beautiful and evil – she murdered minds as well as bodies…

‘A work of art – terrifyingly believable’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Superb … BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW)’ INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

At thirty, Helen Clarvoe is alone: her only visitors are the staff at the hotel where she lives, and her only phone calls come from a stranger.

Until that stranger, with a quiet, compelling voice, lures the aloof and financially secure Miss Clarvoe into a world of extortion, pornography, vengeance, madness and murder.

But who is the hunter and who is the victim…?

A gothic chiller which still feels incredibly modern, BEAST IN VIEW is a true classic of the crime fiction genre.

Publisher Review

A wonderfully crepy and terrifying slice of noir * CATHOLIC HERALD * Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist -- Simon Shaw * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW) -- Christopher Fowler * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * Warrants the highest recommendation on all scores * NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE * Steadily mounting horror! * WASHINGTON STAR * Consistently entertaining... a justly celebrated classic * WATERSTONES GUIDE TO CRIME FICTION * Dazzling ... In the whole of crime fiction's distinguished sisterhood there is no one quite like Margaret Millar -- Matthew Coady She is the very top rank of crime writers -- Julian Symons Margaret Millar is surely one of late 20th century crime writer's best writers... the prose is of superb quality... But it is the use to which Mrs Millar puts her strongly imagined words that makes this book so exceptional -- H R F Keating A wonderfully crepy and terrifying slice of noir * CATHOLIC HERALD * Deeply creepy -- Megan Abbott Superb ... BEAST IN VIEW is cunningly plotted and has an ingenious final twist * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Millar was the master of the surprise ending (exemplified in BEAST IN VIEW) * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * A work of art - terrifyingly believable * NEW YORK TIMES *