While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old estate now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather's house in Cornwall. Theo's case has never been solved, though Alice still harbors a suspicion as to the culprit. Decades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as an author. What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined. One midsummer's eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure. (Oct.About the Book "Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. Morton’s plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters, brought together in the end by Sparrow’s investigation, are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion. The compelling story moves back and forth in time as Sparrow uncovers what happened to Theo in 1933 while also resolving the recent missing-person case. Sparrow locates the now-elderly Alice, a celebrated mystery writer in London, who hands over the keys to the estate so Theo’s case can be reopened.
She begins to investigate the 70-year-old Edevane case with help from the Cornwall locals, including a retired copper who was there in 1933 when Theo disappeared. Curious, Sparrow peers through the windows into tumbledown rooms abandoned in haste long ago. On her first morning run there, she finds the now-dilapidated Loeanneth mansion deep in the woods. Sparrow seeks refuge with her grandfather in Cornwall. Sadie Sparrow is suspended after speaking to the media about a missing-person case, recently closed, that haunts her. The story moves forward to 2003 London, where Det. That night, teenager Alice Edevane is lingering near the nursery when someone kidnaps the cherished Edevane son, Theo despite a lengthy investigation, he is never found. In Cornwall, the wealthy Edevane family prepares for its annual midsummer ball at Loeanneth, their isolated estate. Bestselling storyteller Morton ( The Secret Keeper) excels in this mystery set against the gothic backdrop of 1930s England.
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