Plymouth 1967: Schoolgirl Nell Adams, all the newspapers reported, finds murder victim on train. And her photo covers the front pages. So he knew her name and her face. His face, or lack of it, filled her nightmares until she woke screaming... London 1971: Nell is a university student in London, trying to put the past behind her. But as a series of murders reveals a killer obsessed with Jack the Ripper, she realises her nightmares might be coming true. Detective Briony Williams, also just starting out on her life on London, is part of the team tracking down The Walker. The killer is a practised anatomist with a theatrical streak, arranging his victims' bodies in twisted parodies of Hogarth's engravings. He sends a perfectly extracted eye to the police in a Tupperware container, with a defiant message. He's planning a reunion with the schoolgirl who found his first victim.

1974. Oxford. Detective Briony Williams, starting a new job with the Thames Valley police in Oxford, is called to investigate the murder of a seventeen-year-old girl. Convinced that the girl’s murder is no ordinary domestic crime, Briony delves into the world of the supernatural when she finds a stone carved with an ancient cryptic message clutched in the victim’s hand. The police need solid scientific evidence that will stand up in court, but in order to solve the case Briony must ally herself with a psychic girl and a druid leader. As Briony investigates, the danger deepens, setting her directly in the path of a killer bent on eliminating anyone getting close to the truth. Undeterred, Briony must steer a course between the rational and the supernatural in her search for The Visitor. The Visitor is an expertly plotted crime thriller from a master of the genre. ‘A gripping, original, elegant fiction that wears a wealth of arcane knowledge lightly, never patronises the reader and leaves the door tantalisingly open for sequels.’- Weekend Australian ‘real edge of the seat stuff, deadly and dramatic…’ - Woman’s Day ‘This outstanding novel is everything a good psychological thriller should be—gruesome, unpredictable and un-put-downable.’ - Australian Women’s Weekly Book of the Month Jane R Goodall is the author of three crime thrillers - The Walker, The Visitor and The Calling. She has also written books on theatre history and the history of science.

It is the fierce English summer of 1976 and the Punk movement is on the rise. 'Chaos' is the catchcry down in its heartland at the World's End of London, and Detective Briony Williams wryly observes that though 'they stick pins in themselves, wear leather masks, and insult the Queen', most of this is not against the law. But things take a darker turn as a new group calling itself ‘Sudden Deff’ shows signs of wanting to live up to its name. When Briony learns that she and her colleagues have appeared on 'Deff Row' in the group's fanzine, she is drawn into a fatal game with adversaries who always seem to be two moves ahead. And when Sharon, a young runaway, moves into a squat with her new punk mates, she enters a sinister world and unknowingly puts her own life in danger. Can Briony uncover the leader Sudden Deff before anyone comes to harm? Or will she be too late to stop chaos from being unleashed?