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Also by Debbie Howells:

The Vow, September 2021
Paperback / e-Book
Her Sister\'s Lie, July 2019
Paperback
Her Sister's Lie, August 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Part of the Silence, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Beauty of the End, June 2017
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Beauty of the End, August 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Bones of You, July 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Bones of You, July 2015
Paperback / e-Book

THE BONES OF YOU
By: Debbie Howells

Kensington
July 2015
On Sale: June 30, 2015
313 pages
ISBN: 1617737666
EAN: 9781617737664
Kindle: B00ONTS43O
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller

A stunning, wonderfully assured psychological thriller that evokes Gillian Flynn and Alice Sebold, The Bones of You revolves around a young girl’s murder and one woman’s obsession with uncovering the secrets in an idyllic English village.

I have a gardener’s 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 don’t die before their parents.

When Kate receives a phone call with news that Rosie Anderson is missing, she’s stunned and disturbed. Rosie is eighteen, the same age as Kate’s daughter, and a beautiful, quiet, and kind young woman. Though the locals are optimistic—girls like Rosie don’t get into real trouble—Kate’s 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 Andersons—graceful mother Jo, renowned journalist father Neal, watchful younger sister Delphine—the more she is convinced that not everything is as it seems. Anonymous notes arrive, urging Kate to unravel the tangled threads of Rosie’s life and death, though she has no idea where they will lead.

Weaving flashbacks from Rosie’s perspective into a tautly plotted narrative, The Bones of You is a gripping, haunting novel of sacrifices and lies, desperation and love.

Awards

Fresh Fiction Box Not To Miss, Selection, December 2016