title: The Next Chapter
author: Bryn T. Jones
description: A despairing, bereaved family man finds himself caught in a deadly writing game with the police thinking he's a psychopathic killer. His only hope is to write the next chapter in the game with the thin hope of finding the villain before he claims his next victim.
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  # Deep Sleep
  
  
  # A Helen West Mystery
  
  
  # Frances Fyfield
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS
  
  
  [Prologue](prologue.html#toc-prologue_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](chapter004.html#toc-chapter004_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](chapter005.html#toc-chapter005_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](chapter006.html#toc-chapter006_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](chapter007.html#toc-chapter007_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](chapter008.html#toc-chapter008_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](chapter009.html#toc-chapter009_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](chapter010.html#toc-chapter010_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](chapter011.html#toc-chapter011_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 9](chapter012.html#toc-chapter012_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 10](chapter013.html#toc-chapter013_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 11](chapter014.html#toc-chapter014_1)
  
  
  [Chapter 12](chapter015.html#toc-chapter015_1)
  
  
  [About the Author](abouttheauthor.html#toc-abouttheauthor_1)
  
  
  [Also by Frances Fyfield](ad-card.html#toc-ad-card_1)
  
  
  [Copyright](copyright.html#toc-copyright_1)
  
  
  [About the Publisher](atp.html#atp)
  
  
  # [PROLOGUE](toc.html#toc-prologue)
  
  
  SINCE she had shut the window, the room was