EVERYONE FEARS DEATH AT THE HAND OF A STRANGER, THE FLASH of a knife in a dark alley, the deranged killer, the sadistic rapist who murders to conceal his crimes. But the truth is women are far more likely to be killed by their husbands, partners, lovers or ex-lovers than by a stranger. It is the person you know intimately who is the one who administers the lethal blow, the staged accident, the poison in the favourite meal or even hires a hitman.