On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly
manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and len's
wenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against
the apple tree in the sprawling grounds of her beautiful
home. She watches her fun-loving husband and darling
children and her heart swells with pride. As the joyful
party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by,
the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a
river.
Slipping upstairs to fnd the special gift she's made for
her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something
else hidd en amongst the dusty boxes of once-loved toys
and family keepsakes..
A silky pink scarf printed with tiny black skeletons
that doesn't belong to her. She holds it up to her face,
breaths in the sweet sickly perfume, its scent familiar
and tendrils of fear snake through her body. The scarf
is stained with splashes of blood,
But as Maggie hurries to rejoin the party and pour
herself a glass of champagne to toast the man she's
en joyed decades of ha ppy marriage with, she catches
a news flash of the local girl's murder. She stares at the
girl with the beautiful face, long ice-blonde hair and,
draped loosely around her neck, Maggie recognises it
instantly. She's wearing the scarf
An utterly addictive and twisty read about the complex
web secrets within family that will have you Tacing
through to the mind-blowing end. I you love Lisa
Jewell, Gillian Flynn and Behind Closed Poors, you won't
be able to put this down!
A Note From the Publisher
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