The Dinner Party

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It was the Summer of 1979 in suburban Ridgefield in Australia when four-month-old Megan vanished. Her parents were at a dinner party in a neighbouring house in Wattlebury Court and when her father Frank went to check on her, the crib was empty. It decimated the family. It decimated the close-knit community. Their little slice of paradise turns sour. And you feel their pain, totally hooked on the sad story and their search for answers.

When the foundation set up in Megan's honour funds a podcast to investigate the case forty years on, the sands start to shift. Ruby Costa tells the story of the snatching of baby Megan in The Callaghan Baby Podcast, a Serial-esque true crime investigation of a 40 year cold case, and Ruby is firmly on the trail. Episode by episode we are drip fed information like breadcrumbs as Ruby follows the evidence, reviews the clues, reads the transcrips and delves into the detail. 

When one night a stranger knocks at the Callaghan's door and claims to be Megan, we are plunged into a gripping mystery as their lives are turned upside down. Everyone is keen to believe the long lost sister and aunt Megan has been returned to them, except Billie who is worried that her mother who has already been hurt so much is so fragile and can't take another heartbreak.

Flicking between present day, podcast episodes and That Night we follow their journey to the truth and the quest to find out where Megan has been all of this time. It's a gripping tale and I totally bought into the characters and the puzzle, reading late into the night, desperate for them all to wake from the nightmare, understand the hidden agendas and untangle the lies. Unputdownable.

Deborah Maclaren

About The Dinner Party

The new exciting thriller by Rebecca Heath, author of THE SUMMER PARTY. A dark and twisty domestic thriller set in a seemingly idyllic suburban neighbourhood, where family secrets are best kept buried...

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