Do No Harm

Do No Harm is a chilling psychological thriller from the author of Monster Love, Carol Topolski.

What happens when someone whose job it is to do good is secretly bad?

Everyone knows about Virginia: about her stellar reputation as a gynaecologist; about her commitment to her women patients. But who knows about the knives?

Everyone knows about Faisal too: about his gentle charm and his family; about his brilliance in the operating theatre. But who knows he''s a traitor?

And Gilda - everyone knows about Gilda: she never poops a party; she''s a loyal friend. But who knows about the rubber?

But there''s someone who really does know Virginia, who knows all about her because they''ve been this close from birth. Someone who knows what she does when they''re alone together. What they do with the rosewood box. With the belts.

Who knows that good doctors can go bad . . .

''Topolski adroitly probes the murkiest crannies of the human soul, while ratcheting up the tension. A tautly strung very dark tale'' Time Out

''A chilling portrait of madness and evil'' Daily Express

Carol Topolski is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Her many previous roles include working on the Woodstock festival, in advertising, and as a prison teacher, nursery-school director, director of a rape crisis centre and refuge for battered women, probation officer and film censor. She lives in London and is married with two daughters and two grandchildren. Her first novel, Monster Love, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction, is available in Penguin.