Keep your secrets. Tell your lies. The gripping new psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling The One Who Got Away. An old castle ... For more than 150 years, a grand house known as Alden Castle has stood proudly in the hills above the historic town of Paso Robles, home to a family weighed down by secrets and debt. A fresh body ... When, after much rancour, the castle is sold, billionaire developers move in, only to discover one skeleton after another, including a fresh corpse, rotting in the old family cemetery. An unsolved mystery ... As three generations of the well-respected Alden-Stowe family come in for scrutiny, detectives will discover a twisted web of rivalries, alliances, deceit, and treachery. Set amidst the rolling hills of the California wine district, and featuring gold-digger wives, a frustrated housekeeper, a demented patriarch and forbidden love, police must decide: who has died? Who has survived? And who, amidst all this horror and betrayal, is the lucky one?
Caroline Overington Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Caroline Overington è un'autrice e giornalista australiana il cui lavoro spesso approfondisce complesse questioni sociali e la psicologia umana. Il suo stile di scrittura, informato dal suo background nel giornalismo investigativo, è caratterizzato da un occhio acuto per la verità e da una profonda esplorazione delle motivazioni nascoste. Overington esamina abilmente gli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana, le dinamiche familiari e i dilemmi etici con precisione e profondità. Le sue narrazioni costringono i lettori a contemplare la moralità e la giustizia.
Matilda Is Missing
- 370pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day. Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edges, plus one failed marriage and an assortment of jobs under his belt. But Softie's body clock was ticking, and Garry wanted children … So they got married, and produced the only thing they ever had in common. Matilda. Now, two years later, their golden-haired child is at the centre of a bitter custody battle. Both parents insist that her well-being is the only thing they care about. Yet, in truth, Matilda was always the one most likely to become lost.