'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did.' - iTimes Literary Supplementi p 'Lots of unguessable surprises.' - iThe Observeri p 'He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition.' - iPenguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernaturali p ' A stylish, genuinely chilling author . . . He can be depended upon to sustain swift, sure, exciting, and absorbing stories . . . undoubtedly one of England's best practicing novelists in the tradition of the thriller novel.' - iSt James Guide to Crime Mystery Writersi p 'Come back Paddy Reilly to me' - the words of an old Irish ballad provide a sinister theme for John Blackburn's sixteenth novel, iThe Household Traitorsi 1971. No one has seen or heard from Patricia Reilly in more than thirty years, so why are a ruthless industrial tycoon, a Soviet defector, and a deranged serial killer all so anxious to find her The trail of mystery leads from a town terrorized by murder t