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Liza Beck, a seventeen‑year‑old raised in solitude by her obsessive mother Eve at the remote Shrove House, has been shielded from the outside world—no school, no media, no travel. When the police abduct Eve, detective Sean Holford arrives, and as he probes the case he learns about Liza’s past and a series of unexplained, violent deaths linked to the house.
First publish date: February 19, 1996
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Ruth Rendell
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