Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023
LONDON. Early morning,June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames,a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman,killed by a blow to the head many years ago.
Also inside the bag is a trail of clues,in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu back to a mansion in Chelsea where,nearly thirty years previously,three people lay dead in a kitchen,and a baby waited upstairs for someone to pick her up.
The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.
Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay buried for ever ...
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9781529158564Number of pages: 480Weight: 323 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm
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Lisa Jewell
British author Lisa Jewell's first book,Ralph's Party,came out in 1998. Since then,she's gone on to write a range of fiction including her so-called'curry and flatmates'novels of the nineties and noughties as well as challenging contemporary fiction and thrillers.
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