Caz Frear

31 mai 1998. Cat avait 8 ans. Pourtant, elle se souvient avec précision de ce jour-là. Celui où Maryanne Doyle, adolescente de 17 ans qui faisait tourner toutes les têtes, a disparu. Celui où Cat a surpris son père en flagrant délit demensonge... Aujourd'hui, Cat Kinsella a 26 ans.

Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling nonstop commitments, from raising a teen and two toddlers to job-hunting to finally renovating her dream home, the Meadowhouse.

Acclaimed and internationally best-selling crime novelist Caz Frear returns with her third superb novel featuring Cat Kinsella, a cop “on par with Susie Steiner’s and Tana French’s female detectives”. (Kirkus Reviews)....

Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a detective constable but she’s never been able to banish these ghosts. When she’s called to the scene of a murder, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine has been found strangled....

A young Australian woman turns up dead after a party thrown by her new boss. Joseph Madden insists he’s innocent, that he was home with his wife, Rachel, at the time of the murder. When police question her, Rachel contradicts his alibi, swearing that she was home alone....

What I thought I knew: in 1998, Maryanne Doyle disappeared, and Dad knew something about it. Maryanne Doyle was never seen again....

A fractured marriage. A silent family. A secret that connects them all....