"On a bright January morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought in Trinity Avenue.
Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it. "
Fiona Lawson's making the best of her new living arrangement with her husband. Called a "bird's nest" solution, they alternate living in their house with their children in a co-parenting agreement to ease their separation and provide their family with stability. However, when Fiona comes home one day to find strange people in her house, people who are insisting they have purchased this house from Fiona and her husband, Bram, it becomes clear that something has gone horribly wrong. Just where is Bram? And where are Fiona's children? And how did their house, their beautiful home, wind up in the hands of complete strangers?
This is the type of book that starts strong and just gets better as the story continues. It's the perfect kind of book where you can imagine the horror of this kind of thing happening because as the story unwinds, you realize just what is happening and how this could happen in reality. The characters are well-written and the story is compelling, but what I think drew me in was how carefully crafted the whole "house stealing" scheme happened. That's true horror for me: not monsters under the bed or ghosts in the eaves, but how a domestic situation can go from not great to horrendously awful.
Where Bram is concerned, there is a definite cat-and-mouse game going on, so it's a good thing that you get his perspective in the story. Whether or not you're sympathetic to him . . . well, that's something else. Let's just say that more than one character has something to hide.
Terrific read for a weekend where you have plenty of time to settle in and enjoy a pageturner (with, as expected, a twist).
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