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Author: Flint, Emma
London, Greater London
Published on 7 March 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 368 pages
129 x 197 x 26 | 258g
A Guardian Best Thriller Novel of 2023Zoe Balls Radio 2 Book Club pick Mesmerising, haunting and utterly remarkable, this is a devastating story of obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.
Exquisite - Will Dean, author of Dark PinesThis is a book that will stay with you - Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of the Vera seriesCompelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled GroundLondon, 1923. Like so many single women after the Great War, Beatrice Cade, a thirty-seven-year-old typist, is holding tight to her small scrap of independence and trying to build a life for herself.
When charismatic visiting salesman Tom Ryan directs his attention at her, Bea falls hard for him. But Ryan is married with a child. And his wife, Kate, has worked to create a seemingly happy domestic life. When Bea is found dead and Tom Ryan is in the frame for her murder, it looks like Kate will do anything to protect her family . . .
