Astas Book

For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Astas secret- Sunday Times It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal- themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Astas granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before. A dazzling domestic thriller- Guardian Obsessively readable- Sunday Telegraph An engrossing double-detective story, a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings- Independent on Sunday Absolutely enthralling . . . the best yet from the Vine/Rendell bureau. Essential reading- Literary Review