Larkspur Close is the kind of place where nothing ever happens. Five houses around a shared green. Neighbours who know each other's routines, their habits, their faces at the window.
Then Jake arrives. No explanation. No plans to leave. Just a tent beneath the oak tree and a sketchpad that he fills, day after day, with drawings of the houses around him.
Frank wants him reported. Eddie wants him removed. Paige is terrified of him. And Julie Riley watches from her kitchen window and wonders what, exactly, he's looking for.
Twenty-four days later, a body is found on the green.
The police have questions for everyone. But the answer has been hiding in plain sight since the morning Jake arrived. In the secrets each household has been keeping, in the lies told to protect the ones they love, and in the one person nobody thought to suspect.
Five houses. Five secrets. One body.
The most dangerous people are never the ones you're watching.
Genre: Mystery
Then Jake arrives. No explanation. No plans to leave. Just a tent beneath the oak tree and a sketchpad that he fills, day after day, with drawings of the houses around him.
Frank wants him reported. Eddie wants him removed. Paige is terrified of him. And Julie Riley watches from her kitchen window and wonders what, exactly, he's looking for.
Twenty-four days later, a body is found on the green.
The police have questions for everyone. But the answer has been hiding in plain sight since the morning Jake arrived. In the secrets each household has been keeping, in the lies told to protect the ones they love, and in the one person nobody thought to suspect.
Five houses. Five secrets. One body.
The most dangerous people are never the ones you're watching.
Genre: Mystery