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Once, when Benet was fourteen, she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage when she had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It has been some time since Benet had seen her mad mother so when she arrives at the airport, Benet tries not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap Liza and her mother have led a strange, enclosed life together in their remote home. But all this must end.
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"The web is spun with fiendish skill." – Observer
"Domestic dramas exploding into deaths and murders…Threads are drawn tightly together in a lethal last pattern." – Sunday Times
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Once when Benet was about fourteen she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage ? and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since Benet had seen her mad mother. So when Mopsa arrived at the airport looking drab and colourless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tried not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder.
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