SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN:
A stunning, multi-voiced, period piece - tackling race, gender politics, and the volatility of mid '60s America - from one of today's most interesting crime writing voices

'A real triumph of storytelling and suspense.' Daily Mail
'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY
'Complex, hard-hitting and unflinching' Irish Times
'Aching, thoughtful, and compulsively readable.' Vanity Fair

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Apart from her parents and her two young sons, no one seems to have noticed.

Until Maddie Schwartz, working her first job at the Baltimore Sun, hears of a body that has been pulled from the fountain in a city park. Thinking it's a lead that could make her name, she soon finds that, in 1966, this is a story no-one wants her to tell. . .