The Only Child av Kayte Nunn

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<p>''A taut, clever whodunit ... Kayte Nunn keeps the stakes high and the characters compelling, making for a fast, fresh, engrossing historical mystery!'' <b>KATE QUINN </b><br><br><b>1949 </b>It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixteen-year-old arrives at Fairmile, a home for ''fallen women'' run by the Catholic Church. She and her baby will disappear before the snow melts.<br><b><br> 2013 Frankie Gray</b> has come to the island for the summer, hoping for one last shot at reconnecting with her teenage daughter, <b>Izzy</b>, before starting a job as a deputy sheriff. They are staying with her mother, <b>Diana</b>, at The Fairmile Inn, soon to be a boutique hotel, but when an elderly nun is found dead in suspicious circumstances, and then a tiny skeleton is discovered in the grounds of the house, Frankie is desperate for answers.<br><br> At once an evocative, unsettling tale of past misdeeds and a crime thriller that will have you reading with your h