'Kept me guessing and re-guessing all the way to its inexorable conclusion' Ruth Ware, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10. 'Superb and subtle psychological suspense, and a compelling mystery, too . . . I thought I knew who did it, but I was wrong-four times' Lee Child 'This robust, old-fashioned gothic mystery has everything you're looking for: a creepy old house, a tenant with a secret history, and even a few ghosts. Laura McHugh's novel sits at the intersection of memory and history, astutely asking whether we carry the past or it carries us'Jodi Picoult Arrowood is the grandest of historical houses lining the Mississippi. It has its own stories and ghostly presence: it's where two small twin girls were abducted ten years ago... Now, Arden has returned to her childhood home determined to establish what really happened to her sisters that traumatic summer. But the house and the surrounding town hold their secrets close - and the truth, when Arden finds it, is more devastating than she ever could have imagined. Family lies, buried secrets and a terrifying truth lie at the heart of this brilliant and haunting crime novel.
Frost etched my windshield, and I scraped it off with the edge of an empty ... As soon as I got home, Istripped off the clothes I'd borrowed from Josh and ...
Detektivní román z viktoriánské Anglie představuje seriózního konkurenta Sherlocka Holmese: soukromého pátrače Williama Arrowooda s asistentem Normanem Barnettem, kteří řeší své případy ponejvíce v chudinských čtvrtích ...
London Society takes their problems to Sherlock Holmes. Everyone else goes to Arrowood. ‘Finlay depicts a seedy, desperate London and vivid characters with considerable skill’ The Times
‘Brimming with dark humour, fast-paced action ... this is a top-class series that grows in stature with every new book’ Lancashire Evening Post SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 CWA GOLD DAGGER
'It is a long time since I have read a debut as impressive as Laura McHugh's The Weight of Blood.
1896: A missing daughter. Three dead children. A sinister connection between a farm and an asylum. Arrowood must catch the killer before he strikes again—and before Sherlock Holmes or the police take the credit…
A black boy's death spotlights the Civil Rights-era South.
In this striking first novel, Kelly Bingham uses poems, letters, telephone conversations, and newspaper clippings to look unflinchingly at what it’s like to lose part of yourself - and to summon the courage it takes to find yourself again ...
Four brothers are forced to face their past in this small town they all escaped and see if love can overcome all odds. Can Devney and Sean find love?
... cocklebur and lingering until the first hard frost knocked the pollen down. ... She didn't know Hannah, but she'd seen Roger in the garage now and then.