Sommerurlaub nach dem Uni-Abschluss: Kate verbringt mit ihren Freunden eine Woche in Frankreich. Als die geheimnisvolle Französin Severine zur Gruppe stößt, gerät die Dynamik gefährlich durcheinander. Nach einem Eklat am letzten Tag verschwindet sie spurlos. Zehn Jahre später: Auf dem Gelände wird Severines Leiche gefunden - ermordet. Die ehemaligen College-Freunde geraten ins Visier der Polizei. Vor allem Kate hat ein Motiv, denn sie konnte Severine von Anfang an nicht ausstehen. Unter dem zunehmenden Ermittlungsdruck entgleitet Kate die Realität immer mehr, bis sie sich schließlich die Frage stellen muss: Ist der Abend vor zehn Jahren so verlaufen, wie sie ihn in Erinnerung hat? 'Dieses Debüt macht süchtig!' Karen Dionne, Autorin von 'Die Moortochter'
If you thought your best friend deserved to die, could you kill her? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.
The perfect getaway - to get away with murder...
Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead - drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort. But could a star open-water swimmer really have drowned? Or is something more sinister going on?
Brought together for Lissa's memorial, Georgie, Bron, Lissa's grieving husband and their friends find themselves questioning the circumstances around Lissa's death - and each other. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the guests on the island, it slowly dawns on them that Lissa's death was only the beginning. Nobody knows who they can trust. Or if they'll make it off the island alive...
Praise for the author: "A standout thriller - atmospheric, sinister and totally captivating" ALEX LAKE, bestselling author of After Anna
"Uncannily creepy and grounded in the true horror of human evil" THE OBSERVER on The Missing Years
"Demands a one-sit read" MAIL ONLINE on The French Girl
"A gripping mystery... tangled relationships, shifting perceptions, and the memories - and people - that haunt us. I was completely captivated from beginning to end." MEGAN MIRANDA on The French Girl
We all have our secrets...
They were six university students from Oxford-friends and sometimes more than friends-spending an idyllic week together in a French farmhouse. It was supposed to be the perfect summer getaway...until they met Severine, the girl next door.
For Kate Channing, Severine was an unwelcome presence, her inscrutable beauty undermining the close-knit group's loyalties amid the already simmering tensions. And after a huge altercation on the last night of the holiday, Kate knew nothing would ever be the same. There are some things you can't forgive. And there are some people you can't forget...like Severine, who was never seen again.
Now, a decade later, the case is reopened when Severine's body is found in the well behind the farmhouse. Questioned along with her friends, Kate stands to lose everything she's worked so hard to achieve as suspicion mounts around her. Desperate to resolve her own shifting memories and fearful she will be forever bound to the woman whose presence still haunts her, Kate finds herself buried under layers of deception with no one to set her free...
