Fringes — Mike O'Sullivan

Eva Cyclone, a strikingly beautiful hairdresser joins Fringes Salon in Ross on Wye but soon her landlord becomes obsessed with her and turns stalker. A trainee hairdresser has already been murdered in a car park in Ross and local hairdressers are worried. Lauren Canning from Mirror Images vows to help Eva but it soon emerges that Eva has come to Ross from France via New York to escape the attentions of other obsessive men. They are tied up with drug dealing and money laundering and Eva knows at least one of them is a security agent. To complicate things Eva's family background is colourful and there is a history of the attentions of State Security Services.
Meanwhile Chief Inspector Worcester is tasked by his Chief Constable with dealing with an unwanted CIA agent who has turned up on their patch. Soon there are several stalkers, each being tracked by various State Security Agents, descending on Ross from Russia, France, and the USA in search of Eva. Then the landlord stalker is found dead in his car shortly after being outed by a group of Ross hairdressers organised by Lauren. Together with Chief Inspector Worcester the hairdressers led by Lauren need to find a way to deal with the stalkers and take on the international spies.
What people are saying about book number 5 in the Hairdresser Murders series:-
‘Young women outing sex pests and spies on the streets of a small English market town; how could this be any more up to date?'