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Kensington
July 2015
On Sale: June 30, 2015
313 pages ISBN: 1617737666 EAN: 9781617737664 Kindle: B00ONTS43O Hardcover / e-Book
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A stunning, wonderfully assured psychological thriller that evokes Gillian Flynn and Alice Sebold, The Bones of You revolves around a young girlβs murder and one womanβs obsession with uncovering the secrets in an idyllic English village. I have a gardenerβs inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft‑petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer. Children who donβt die before their parents. When Kate receives a phone call with news that Rosie Anderson is missing, sheβs stunned and disturbed. Rosie is eighteen, the same age as Kateβs daughter, and a beautiful, quiet, and kind young woman. Though the locals are optimisticβgirls like Rosie donβt get into real troubleβKateβs sense of foreboding is confirmed when Rosie is found fatally beaten and stabbed. Who would kill the perfect daughter, from the perfect family? Yet the more Kate entwines herself with the Andersonsβgraceful mother Jo, renowned journalist father Neal, watchful younger sister Delphineβthe more she is convinced that not everything is as it seems. Anonymous notes arrive, urging Kate to unravel the tangled threads of Rosieβs life and death, though she has no idea where they will lead. Weaving flashbacks from Rosieβs perspective into a tautly plotted narrative, The Bones of You is a gripping, haunting novel of sacrifices and lies, desperation and love.
AwardsFresh Fiction Box Not To Miss, Selection, December 2016
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