Roused by a single drop of blood Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her & she takes flight
- with his credit card Alone in a strange city Rosie begins to build a new life she meets Bill Steiner & she finds an odd junk shop painting ' Rose Madder' which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder Rose-maddened & on the rampage Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people & he's getting close Rosie can feel how close he is getting A brilliant dark-hued fable of gender wars a haunting love story & a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best