![]() Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Detective Sadie Sparrow retreats on an enforced holiday to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall. But by the time midnight strikes and the fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever. June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. ![]() 'A deliciously compelling mystery.' - Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Big Little Lies perfect books for just about every reader.' - Library Journal delivers the satisfactions of all her bestsellers since debuting with The House at Riverton. are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Morton's plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until, in 2003, a young female police officer stumbles into the lost gardens surrounding the abandoned house and determines to find out what happened. After months of futile searching, the family pack up and leave their beautiful country home, never to return. The morning after the Edevane's exclusive Midsummer Eve party in Cornwall in 1933, their youngest child, Theo, is nowhere to be found. ![]()
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