<p><b>'A brilliant, original read' - <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of <i>The Other Bennet Sister</i></b><br><i><br>The case is unexceptional, that is what I know. A house full of stuff left behind by a dead woman, abandoned at the last . . .</i><br><br>When trauma cleaner Essie Pound makes a gruesome discovery in the derelict Edinburgh boarding house she is sent to clean, it brings her into contact with a young policewoman, Emily Noble, who has her own reasons to solve the case. <br><br>As the two women embark on a journey into the heart of a forgotten family, the investigation prompts fragmented memories of their own traumatic histories – something Emily has spent a lifetime attempting to bury, and Essie a lifetime trying to lay bare.<br><br><b>
