Detective's Daughter

A tense, evocative thriller set on the freezing banks of the Thames. A woman reconnects with her dead father by solving the murder case that obsessed him in life.

Detective Darnell died before he closed the case. Can his daughter solve it thirty years later? It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, went to the river with her three-year-old son. She never came home. For three decades the case file has lain, unsolved, in the corner of an attic. Until the detective's daughter Stella, a cleaner who loves restoring order, starts to clear out her father's house after his death... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret. The House With No Rooms. The Dog Walker.

“'Skilfully evokes the era and slow-moving childhood summers ... A study of memory and guilt with several twists' Guardian .”

'This book has a clever mystery plot - but its excellence is in the characters, all credible and memorable' Literary Review. 'A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot' Sunday Times. 'Skilfully evokes the era and slow-moving childhood summers ... A study of memory and guilt with several twists' Guardian.

Lesley Thomson was born in 1958 and grew up in London. She went to Holland Park Comprehensive and the Universities of Brighton and Sussex. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter, was published in 2013 and sold over 300,000 copies.

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