A missing woman, an abandoned mansion, family trauma, and deep buried secrets.
"Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. Just for an hour or so. Is that OK?"
Midsummer 2017- teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. At 11pm she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home. Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place. Tallulah never returns.
2018- walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head-teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence. A sign that says- DIG HERE . . . A cold case. An abandoned mansion. A family hiding a terrible secret. Prepare to be hooked.
Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Paperback
Lisa Jewell
480 pages
H: 234mm W: 152mm Spine: 35mm
Weight: 584 grams