Morton, Kate

Fifty years after she witnessed a shocking crime at her family's farm in the English countryside, Laurel, now a successful London actress, returns to the farm and is overwhelmed by family secrets she has not thought of in decades.

"Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family"--OCLC.

In present day London, archivist Elodie discovers a satchel with contents that send her on a journey of discovery with characters whose stories interweave in a mysterious house, Birchwood Manor on the Upper Thames. In addition to the residents from 1862 through the present, the house is also haunted by a specter that traverses the house over the years and chronicles what she sees. Elodie lands upon the mystery of a girl's disappearance in the nineteenth century--and her connection to the artist--and through her research, comes to learn of how the lives of all the house's residents intertwine.

During Eleanor and Anthony Edevane's 1933 Midsummer Eve party, their daughter, Alice, a budding writer, falls in love for the first time. However, the night is fated to be remembered in tragedy as Alice's infant brother, Theo, is kidnapped from his crib. The Edevane family abandons the country house, never to return. Seventy years later, Detective Constable Sadie Sparrow discovers the overgrown house, and seeks out the now-elderly and famous Alice for answers and the uncovering of old secrets.

Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is visited by a young director who takes her back to Riverton House where she reveals the secret behind the death of a young poet in the summer of 1924.

Sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane's infant brother Theo disappears one night during a party with hundreds of guests at her family's English estate. Years later, as a successful author, Alice still harbors a suspicion as to how her brother disappeared. Meanwhile, while out walking at her grandfather's house in Cornwall, London detective Sadie Sparrow stumbles upon the old Edevane estate, now abandoned. With her curiosity sparked, a chain of events transpires that brings her and Alice together and reveals the shocking truth behind the mystery that happened so long ago.

Fifty years after she witnessed a shocking crime at her family's farm in the English countryside, Laurel, now a successful London actress, returns to the farm and is overwhelmed by family secrets she has not thought of in decades.

Edie Burchill travels to Middlehurst Castle, the longtime residence of the Blythe spinsters, to seek out information about her mother, who was billeted there as a thirteen-year-old during World War II, and winds up finding out more than she imagined.

Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories--From publisher description.