by Mark Edwards
First published 2018
Four years after her sister Isabel's death, Jessica has accepted the verdict: an accident, nothing more. Isabel had everything going for her, a thriving business, a devoted husband, a beautiful home. Then she was gone. Jessica has moved on as best she can. Then her young daughter starts saying things she could not possibly know. Details about Isabel's past, specific and strange, surface from a child too young to have learned them anywhere. Jessica starts pulling at threads she had left alone. What she finds is not the sister she thought she knew. The closer Jessica looks, the more the picture changes. The people Isabel loved most were not what they seemed. The life that looked perfect had cracks running through it. And as the truth about Isabel comes into focus, Jessica realizes the same danger that may have killed her sister could now be circling her own family. Mark Edwards builds the tension around a single question: what does a child know, and how does she know it? The answer requires Jessica to confront grief, betrayal, and the possibility that someone she trusts is responsible for Isabel's death.
Genres: domestic-fiction, suspense, mystery, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotionally-tense, gripping, suspenseful, unsettling
Tropes: danger-circling-family, family-secrets, paranormal-mystery, unreliable-narrator
365 pages · Paperback · Thomas & Mercer
Content warnings: death, murder