Bøger af Paula Hillman

A psychological suspense about silence and its sinister effects on a family and a village from the author of Blackthorn Wood. When Laurie Helm's mother dies, Laurie must return to the village where she grew up. It's a place she left twenty years ago, and she's hardly seen her mother since. With no siblings or other family, Laurie is left to sort out the house and estate, and to face some of the reasons she left Chapel Field in the first place. Ed Diamond grew up in Chapel Field-but it hasn't been much of a life. After his father passed away, Ed was the last person left who could care for his disabled sister. But the villagers have their own opinions on that . . . Laurie and Ed met when they were kids, and as a disillusioned teenager, she joined in with the systematic tormenting of the Diamond family under the guidance of her friend, charismatic Marcus Butcher-until one of his pranks went too far. Now, reunited as adults, Laurie and Ed have lingering feelings of hatred, guilt, and resentment stirring between them-while being inexplicably drawn to each other . . .

A scandalous accusation sends a woman fleeing to the countryside, where she meets an enigmatic man who also has something to hide . . . After a teenage boy makes allegations of inappropriate behaviour, Evie Cooper goes back to her hometown. There, her old friend Alex, now a solicitor, can help her navigate the situation, as well as offer her a job to tide her over. Evie rents a cottage while she waits for the crisis to blow over; it's isolated and rundown, but it's cheap, and she finds the rural quiet soothing. After a local man, Jay, helps her out of a tight spot, she starts a friendship with him that quickly becomes romantic. But she senses a strange tension between Jay and Alex. Why does Jay seem to avoid Alex? Is there something Alex isn't telling her--and why would he keep it secret? Then Evie stumbles on a surprising revelation about Jay--and as the truth begins to emerge, she must decide who she can really trust . . .

The unearthing of a long-hidden body stirs up a woman's memories of a troubled relationship--and teenage trauma--in this suspenseful, emotional novel. When she was just fourteen, Jill's family moved to Walney Island. Initially intoxicated by the freedom of the seaside setting--and fifteen-year-old Andrew Brownstone--she came to learn that her first impressions were very wrong. After making a shocking discovery in Seaview House, Jill fled the scene--a guilty secret she's carried with her ever since. Now, thirty years later, when the decrepit Seaview House is being demolished, a body is found buried in the garden. But who is the deceased? Jill is soon drawn back into the past when police question her about the relationship she had with Andrew all those years ago. Yet as the pieces of the puzzle start falling into place, she discovers she's not the only one hiding something . . .