Harriet Webb

A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing contest. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of a contestant sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.

When her father is declared 'lost at sea', Verma has to come back to Sandylands to manage his affairs.

As her freedom is threatened, Isio, a Nigerian migrant freshly placed at a UK asylum removal centre, searches for the will to battle the system and finds a kindred spirit who might help her through. Freedom is elusive, but love is...