A dark and gripping mystery about love and loss.

Miriam thought she’d left the horror of that Norfolk summer behind. But the past isn't finished with her.

Eighteen years after her best friend Lori was murdered at a seaside caravan park, Miriam returns to the town and checks into The Croft — a genteel guesthouse run by the courteous, quietly intense Alan Cunningham. As her family holiday unravels and old suspicions resurface, she realises the killer never left this stretch of Norfolk coast. He’s closer — and more patient — than she could ever imagine.

A razor-sharp psychological thriller about the long shadow of unsolved murder, the price of guilt, and what happens when the monster you never quite escaped is waiting with fresh towels and a smile.

For fans of Lisa Jewell’s The Night She Disappeared and Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10.