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The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and T… Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape.WebBuy the Book Reading Groups FIND OUT MORE THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON THE SHIFTING FOG - Could you keep a secret your entire life? - Summer 1924: On the night of a glittering Society party, by the

Meanwhile, in her elegant Hampstead house, the formidable Alice Edevane now leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Once there, she stumbles upon a long-abandoned house, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace. Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Detective Sadie Sparrow retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall. But by the time midnight strikes, and fireworks light up the night sky, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great they leave Loeanneth forever. June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. 'A deliciously compelling mystery.' - Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Big Little Lies

perfect books for just about every reader.' - Library Journal delivers the satisfactions of all her bestsellers since debuting with The House at Riverton. are as surprised as readers will be by the astonishing conclusion.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Morton's plotting is impeccable, and her finely wrought characters. Until, in 2003, a young female police officer stumbles into the lost gardens surrounding the abandoned house and determines to find out what happened. After months of futile searching, the family pack up and leave their beautiful country home, never to return. The morning after the Edevane's exclusive Midsummer Eve party in Cornwall in 1933, their youngest child, Theo, is nowhere to be found.