"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement "Lots of unguessable surprises." - The Observer "He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest recognition." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural "[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." - St James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers "Come back Paddy Reilly to me" - the words of an old Irish ballad provide a sinister theme for John Blackburn"s sixteenth novel, The Household Traitors (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...