But beneath the surface Manon is struggling with the day-to-day realities of what she’d assumed would be domestic bliss: fights about whose turn it is to clean the kitchen, the bewildering fatigue of having a young child while in her forties, and the fact that she is going to couples counseling alone because her husband feels it would just be her complaining.īut when Manon is on a walk with her four-year-old son in a peaceful suburban neighborhood and discovers the body of a Lithuanian immigrant hanging from a tree with a mysterious note attached, she knows her life is about to change. Newly married and navigating life with a preschooler as well as her adopted adolescent son, Manon Bradshaw is happy to be working part-time in the cold cases department of the Cambridgeshire police force, a job that allows her to potter in, coffee in hand, and log on for a spot of Internet shopping-precisely what she had in mind when she thought of work-life balance. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN “A police procedural with real imagination and heart, and a marvelous lightness of style and wit.”-Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials trilogy
“Brilliantly gripping.”-Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List An immigrant’s mysterious death sets off a chilling hunt for the truth in this gripping crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed
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