Emily Critchley

A mystery she can't remember. A friend she can't forget. I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it for more than sixty years . . . It is 1951, and at number six Sycamore Street, fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living alone with her eccentric mother, who conducts séances for the local Ludthorpe community, she is desperate for something to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR A dark, captivating novel of family secrets, desperate ambition and the deepest betrayal. TO BECOME ONE OF THEM, SHE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES... 1938. Gillian Larking is used to blending in and going unnoticed, until she is befriended by her new roommate at boarding school,...