She meets a charming man and lets him take her to dinner. There is a funeral and Laurel feels as though by burying Ellie she has been given a second chance at her own life. A few days later there is a second call: Ellie’s remains have been found. It reflects perfectly how she feels.Įllie’s rucksack has been found. She makes cursory visits to her mom at the hospice, but Laurel’s life is grey and dull and pointless. She doesn’t speak to her son and hasn’t met his partner. She cleans her daughter Hannah’s apartment weekly, speaks to her even less often than that. She’s moved to a dull, undecorated flat where she does little more than run the hoover once a week to maintain it. She works three days a week at something she doesn’t find very important. Ten years after Ellie’s disappearance, a divorced Laurel is living half a life. Why would someone who had everything leave it all behind? When she disappeared, the police spoke of runaways, but Laurel has never really believed that.

At fifteen, Ellie was dating the best-looking boy in her school and getting top marks in all her classes. Ellie, her tumultuous teenage daughter, who lacked the surliness of her sister and the indifference of her brother was Laurel’s golden girl. Mothers shouldn’t have favorites, but Laurel did. A tale of a missing girl, a mother’s shattered life and the gradual rebuilding of a family, this twisting, turning mystery will have you reading into the wee hours of the morning. Jewell’s Then She Was Gone since I finished the last page of her stellar I Found You. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.Īs they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined.I’ve been looking forward to Ms.

All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.Īfter fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock-news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery.

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