Macmillan, Gilly

Zoe Maisey, a seventeen-year-old genius musical prodigy, once served time in juvie for her part in an accident that left three of her classmates dead. Now she and her mother, Maria, have made a new life for themselves, and Maria has made Zoe swear never to reveal her past, not even to her new step-dad. On the night of Zoe's first recital in years, Maria ends up dead, and in the aftermath everyone, including Zoe herself, has to figure out just what they missed that might have prevented it.

"When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, behind. Thirty years later, Jo returns to the house and is forced to confront her troubled relationship with her mother. But when human remains are accidentally uncovered in a lake on the estate, Jo begins to question everything she thought she knew. Then an unexpected visitor knocks on the door and Jo's world is destroyed again. Desperate to piece together the gaping holes in her memory, Jo must uncover who her nanny really was, why she left, and if she can trust her own mother. In this . . . tale of secrets, lies, and deception, Gilly Macmillan explores the darkest impulses and desires of the human heart"--OCLC.

"In her enthralling debut, Gilly Macmillan explores a mother's search for her missing son, weaving a taut psychological thriller as gripping and skillful as The Girl on the Train and The Guilty One." --In a heartbeat, everything changes...Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son, Ben, when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from Rachel's newly married ex-husband to her mother-of-the-year sister. Inevitably, media attention focuses on Rachel too, and the public's attitude toward her begins to shift from sympathy to suspicion. As she desperately pieces together the threadbare clues, Rachel realizes that nothing is quite as she imagined it to be, not even her own judgment. And the greatest dangers may lie not in the anonymous strangers of every parent's nightmares, but behind the familiar smiles of those she trusts the most. Where is Ben? The clock is ticking.."--.

Seventeen-year-old musical prodigy Zoe Maisey's mother is found dead the evening of her recital, and as Zoe tries to piece together what happened, the truth is closer than it seems.