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Everyone is going to the housewarming party.

All the same people who lived on the street the…

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Lynes writes masterful psychological suspense which always has the reader asking how they would behave in the world she creates.

This superb book opens with a mother whose toddler has gone missing when she looked away for just a moment. I was gripped from the first line.

Tackling personal and community responsibility, it also examines friendship and the love a mother has for her child.

You can’t go wrong with an S E Lynes.

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