Title: The Recluses - Laura Wilson - book
Summary :
Summer 1890. In the garden of a splendid country house, children from a well-to-do family play hide-and-seek, joyful and carefree. Until the discovery of the body of the youngest of them, mortally wounded in the head...
London, 1955. In a middle-class South Kensington home, three elderly people are murdered. Thirty years earlier, one of the victims, a famous and eccentric beauty, had been suspected of her husband's murder. Beside her lie the corpses of her brother and their elderly housekeeper. Two events that seem unrelated. And yet.
Teenage passions, family secrets, star-crossed loves... this captivating romantic suspense takes us to the heart of a terrifying labyrinth, to the edge of madness. Its mystery and oppressive atmosphere evoke Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. With The Recluses , Laura Wilson establishes herself more than ever as one of the great ladies of English crime fiction.