Early morning. A phone call from a French number. Rachel Rimmer picks up her mobile. It's her husband's housekeeper sobbing loudly. She has just found Michael's corpse in the cellar of his house in Nice. He has been dead for five days. Murdered ... The French police conclude that Michael was murdered by his gangster associates. They have no idea that he was killed by his ex-wife Lucy in a disastrous bid to get passports for herself her two children and her dog so that they can flee France to reunite with Lucy's long lost daughter Libby. A year later Lucy is living in Henry's flat in London. She and her children are happy. Henry is not. He needs to get away from this domestic idyll (which he considers a new form of hell) and is working on a plan to track down his alter-ego Phin the boy he fixated on when they both lived in Henry's parents' mansion in Chelsea. Meanwhile Rachel Rimmer is searching for the woman who was married to Michael before her. The woman she never met but who she now knows to be the last person to see Michael alive. What could possibly go wrong? Prepare to be hooked. It's Lisa Jewell's new bestseller ...
