Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah, Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99.
It could be that Connie Bowskill is simply losing her mind. Late one night, while taking a virtual tour on a property website, she sees a woman lying in a pool of blood. Or does she? Seconds later, the gruesome scene is gone.
Husband Kit is desperately worried, or is he? Marriage vows notwithstanding everything and everyone is up for question in this complicated British thriller.
Peppered between chapters are oddly touching police exhibits taken from the home of a family called the Gilpatricks. Things such as children’s schoolwork and detailed shopping lists.
But who are these charming people? And what happened to them? Somehow you know the answers won’t be pleasant, but before long your need to find out the truth will rival that of Connie’s, the ordinary book-keeper feeling her way through a blinding storm of obsession and violence.
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