![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, there are beautiful descriptions of the region’s landscape and canny insights into the neighborhood’s tight-knit community. Jess’s gripping inquiry into what happened brings up staggering revelations. At Nora’s house, she finds an old book about the unresolved Turner deaths, which Jess never knew about, and discovers the family’s connection to her own. Morton then cuts to 2018 as journalist Jess Turner leaves her London home to travel back to Adelaide after her grandmother, Nora, injures herself in a bad fall. The first chapter can make or break a readers engagement with a story. A painstaking investigation begins, and Percy is grilled by a detective who was brought in from out of town. At first, it appears they’re resting on blankets after a swim, but upon closer inspection, he realizes they’re dead and that baby Thea is missing from her basket. One day, neighbor Percy Summers happens upon the family while riding his horse. It’s Christmas Eve 1959, and patriarch Thomas Turner is abroad on business, leaving behind his wife, Isabel, and their four children. Morton ( The Clockmaker’s Daughter) delivers an eerie epic involving a wealthy family’s mysterious deaths in Adelaide Hills, South Australia. ![]()
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