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From the award-winning and bestselling author, Lesley Thomson is back with a new title in "The Detective's Daughter" series. 'A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot' "The Sunday Times"
About the author
Lesley Thomson grew up in west London. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing , won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter , was a #1 bestseller and the resulting series has sold over 750,000 copies. Lesley divides her time between Sussex and Gloucestershire. She lives with her partner and her dog.
Visit her website at lesleythomson.co.uk
Summary
A haunted house, a broken family and a body that has never been found. Stella and Jack must reawaken the secrets of the past in order to solve the mysteries of the present.
January, 1987. In the depths of winter, only joggers and dog walkers brave the Thames towpath after dark. Helen Honeysett, a young newlywed, sets off for an evening run from her riverside cottage. Only her dog returns.
Twenty-nine years later, her husband has asked Stella Darnell, a private detective, and her side-kick Jack Harmon, to find out what happened all those years ago.
But when the five households on that desolate stretch of towpath refuse to give up their secrets, Stella and Jack find themselves hunting a killer whose trail has long gone cold...
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'Cleverly plotted with plenty of tension, drama, and warmly drawn characters' Sixty Plus Surfer.
