It Could Have Been Her
Lisa Jewell sends a stray terrier and a missing teenager to unlock a house with a twenty-five-year-old body count, and the dual-timeline plotting is tight enough to reward careful readers without insulting them.
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A dog turning up alone on a country lane is a small thing, barely a mystery at all, until you notice how much weight Jewell puts on it. The terrier belongs to a girl who has vanished, and the girl's dog belongs, on paper, to a house called Thornwood that Jane Trevally already knows far too well. That's the hook, and it's a good one: an ordinary errand, returning a lost dog, walks Jane straight back into a house she spent twenty-five years trying to forget. What she wants is simple, get the dog home. What stands in her way is a man at the door who isn't who he's supposed to be, and a woman glimpsed through a window who looks like she's been waiting a long time for someone to notice she's there.
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