

A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital.Īt Nora’s house, Jess discovers a true-crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959.

Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. The highly anticipated new novel from the worldwide bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a spellbinding story that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations.Īt the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery.
