When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, others rattle ominously in their cupboards. For the bones belong to their teenage daughter Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago, and the murderer must be very close to home... Does Natalie's childhood friend Jane - now divorcing her brother - hold the key to the mystery? And are all their memories of a golden girl at the heart of an idyllic extended family false? Nicci French is the author ofCatch Me When I Fall,Secret Smile,Land of the Living,Killing Me Softly,The Red RoomandBeneath the Skin. She lives near Ipswich, England.