Longlisted for the New Blood Dagger Award 2021''A darkly gripping and addictive read. I tore through it in a few days- ESTHER FREUD''Deeply engrossing - an exquisite literary thriller- PHILIPPA EAST-Emotionally wrenching- WALL STREET JOURNAL-Impossible to put down- TREVOR WOODA missing woman30 years ago, in the suffocating heat of a Sydney summer, the Greens- next-door neighbour Mandy disappeared without a trace.A cold case reopenedIn 1997, in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father is under suspicion of Mandy-s murder.A devastating secretHow well does Isla know her father? Is he capable of doing something terrible? And is there another secret in their community - a conspiracy of silence which stretches deep into Australia-s past?-------------------------------An atmospheric, convincing portrayal of the way that the decisions we make, both individually and collectively, reverberate down the years- GUARDIAN-Allott uses the scan
