The House of Mirrors

In the summer of 1997, Karen is a straight-laced, straight-A student who meets Biba, a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. Within a few months two people are dead and one person has gone to prison.

Decades on, Karen is married to Rex, whom she stood by throughout his sentence. Their daughter Alice runs a vintage clothing company in London. The family keeps up a normal surface on three conditions: nobody talks about the past, nobody says Biba's name, and nobody remarks on the flashes of dark, dangerous fury that Alice sometimes shows.

Karen has buried the truth of what happened in 1997 deep inside her. Alice has secrets of her own. Then anonymous notes begin arriving at Alice's shop, and the past starts to close in on all three of them.

This is a psychological thriller with a Gothic streak, moving between a sweltering summer in the late nineties and the present day. It is a story of family secrets, with a long-ago killing at its centre. Someone in it has killed before, and someone will kill again, so the tension builds steadily as the notes keep coming.