Her grandmother’s beautiful Regency house in a quiet seaside village seems like the safest place to hide. This story has two timelines, unlike other story with duel timelines, these two could be two independent books on their own. Such a brilliant read set in 2 different times in the same house, one present day, one in the Second World War. I wasn’t too sure on this book to begin with as the dual narratives did not seem to marry up and I felt like I was reading two separate books at the same time. What are the secrets that tie the two women to the house and will past secrets come back to haunt them.

Another cracker of a book from this author, great read and I would recommend to both readers of Jane Corry and to new readers too. Nancy flees London after her Stepbrother Martin murders and sentenced a life in prison after murdering her parents. I do believe the level of trauma before the big reveal implied a larger moment and it felt again like the narrator's image was being protected rather than exploring the trauma that links the assault and the murder. This writing style jumps around a lot so its hard to keep up with what's going on, you just have to really pay attention lol.When its current owner is forced to relocate there to avoid the press that had hounded her in her London home. Finally, on a completely separate note – and a complete coincidence, this is the second book I’ve read this week which mentions a wartime British evacuation ship sunk by a U-boat torpedo – The SS City of Benares! Every so often there are teasing snippets of ‘The Night of the Murder’ – as the book progresses, these get more detailed and a great way of ramping up the tension and suspicion. It is splashed over the papers and Nancy knows that soon she will have journalists on her doorstep, so she decides to go to Sidmouth in Devon, to the house she has inherited from her grandmother Adeline, Tall Chimneys. The seaside home was inherited through her mother's side of the family given to her grandmother by a friend from the war era.

But this book suffers from that dual POV trope of using chapter cliffhangers but then switching to the other POV.The present storyline about Nancy and her family was particularly poignant, but for me the characters weaved into the story from the war years is exceptional. I found this incredibly interesting as I haven’t come across this term before, but it is the idea that when somebody commits a crime their family/friends or even victims are condemned in addition to the perpetrators.

Her grandmother's beautiful Regency house in a quiet seaside village seems like the safest place to hide. After tragedy that happens to Nancy’s family she decides to hide in her grandmothers house Tall Chimneys unfortunately someone finds out where she is and Martin her stepbrother starts to message her she doesn’t feel safe anymore, there is so much intrigue and tension and you just hope that everything works out happy for her. Wow what can I say this book was amazing, it was a fast paced and kept me guessing throughout a perfect book for psychological thrillers fans alike! After Nancy’s stepbrother murders her mother and his father, Nancy flees to Tall Chimneys, an old boarding house on the Devon coast that belonged to her grandmother.My sincere thank you to Penguin Random House Canada and NetGalley for providing me with a digital copy of this clever novel. There was not, however, any reference to lavender, or to an obscure art/craft, which I was slightly disappointed by, though I soon got over it. This often hair-raising experience helped inspire her Sunday Times-bestselling psychological dramas, My Husband’s Wife, Blood Sisters, The Dead Ex, I Looked Away, I Made A Mistake, The Lies We Tell andWe All Have Our Secrets, which have been translated into over 16 languages and sold over a million copies worldwide. Elizabeth Montague runs a boarding house, Tall Chimneys, in Sidmouth, a coastal Devonshire town when she’s reluctantly recruited into Churchill’s Secret Army.