This is one of the most well written mysteries I’ve ever read – I was hooked from the first page and my attention was held until the very end.

The chapters alternate between the POVs of Julianna, a famous author with a penchant for daydreaming, and her adult daughter, Logan, who is witnessing the decline of her mother’s health and memory.

Connor, Julianna’s husband and great love, is murdered in their home and nobody can determine how anyone could have entered the house without waking the entire household.

Julianna is an unreliable narrator with her diminishing memory and tendency to daydream for long stretches of time while writing her books, we know that she misses a great deal of what’s going on around her. This is also a massive contributing factor to her relationship with her daughter – Logan is now an adult and coming to understand her mother as a person rather than a disappointing parent.

Logan is more attentive to the things going on around her and is the driving force of the investigation, uncovering secrets within the small island community.

The clues are subtle but dished out liberally so you have plenty of potential leads to consider if you like trying to work out whodunnit while you’re reading, but it’s impossible to be sure until last few pages of the book. The pacing is perfection, with a lot of characters and events propelling the story onwards.

I would certainly recommend this book for fans of murder mysteries. The paperback edition includes some questions for book groups at the end and I’m inclined to agree that this would be a fantastic read for a group to discuss.