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''Elegant, absorbing, full of Hitchcockian menace’ Lucy Foley

‘I was mesmerized’ Lisa Jewell

''Brilliantly plotted'' Liz Nugent

‘Fans of detective fiction will be thrilled!’ Shari Lapena

A house filled with secrets…

Young writer Nicky Hunter is summoned to the lavish mansion of infamous crime novelist Sebastian Trapp to tell his life story — before his imminent death.

And then a body is found…

Who really is Sebastian Trapp? Misunderstood genius or cold-hearted killer? What really happened to his first wife and young son, who disappeared twenty years ago?

You’ll never guess the secret. You’ll never forget the twist.