A house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb, a child disappears in the aftermath and Sarah Tucker - bored and unhappy with life - becomes obsessed with trying to find her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long-believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

Picked up at today's lunch with cross-patch and spouse. It hadn't been registered at bookcrossing so I've remedied that.

An ordinary housewife suddenly finds herself involved with spies and government cover-ups but this is no James Bond type tale and no-one is squeaky clean and there's not really a happy ending either. In fact, it's quite a depressing book but one I had to keep reading so it definitely shows the writer has some skill.

Going in the Random bookbox.

Found in the Random Bookbox when it returned home.