The book starts with a journalist, Leah, who resigns before she is sacked and charged with libel. She meets a friend she has not seen for years who offers her a place in another town and she re-invents herself as a teacher. Straightforward you think. Then someone is murdered and her friend has disappeared. She struggles to prove her friend existed. Certain secrets people have kept are gradually revealed. The author cleverly has you wondering who to believe, are the people who they say they are, who is honest and who is not. Who really did the killings, were the suicides suicide or not, how was Leah involved? Leah is determined to find out even though she could be in danger herself. Interesting twists finally resolved.