In the wooded copse beyond a London commons, a dead body is discover by daytime TV presenter Gaby Mortimer during her morning run. Gaby starts out as a witness, but soon becomes a suspect. As more and more evidence points to her, Gaby is eventually arrested as the murderer. With no support from her distant, distracted workaholic husband, Gaby muddles through the terrible mess of her life alone. That is until an investigative reporter befriends her and works at proving her innocence. It soon becomes apparent that all is not as it seems -- about the murder and about Gaby's life

Told from a first-person point of view in the present tense, UNDER YOUR SKIN by Sabine Durrant offers up a shrewd murder mystery with enough ingenious twists to keep readers interested as they make their way through lots of British vernacular to a shocking ending.

Book Summary

In this page-turning debut from talented crime writer Sabine Durrant, a woman makes a chilling discovery in the woods that changes her life forever.

When clever, pretty, successful Gaby Mortimer discovers the dead body of a young woman near her house, she has no idea that her apparently happy, secure, charmed life is about to go into sickening freefall—and that soon she will be living by the mantra of the police detective investigating the murder case: ABC: Assume Nothing, Believe No One, Check Everything…