<p><b>One family''s skeletons emerge on a 1950s seaside summer holiday in this classic mystery from ''Britain''s Patricia Highsmith'' and ''the grandmother of psycho-domestic noir'' (<i>Sunday Times</i>)</b><br><b><br>''</b><b>A slow-burning chill of a read by a master of suspense.'' </b>Janice Hallett<br><br>The holidays have begun. In a seaside caravan resort, Isabel and her sister Meg build sandcastles with the children, navigate deckchair politics, explore the pier''s delights, gorge ice cream in the sun. But their half-sister Mildred has returned to a nearby coastal cottage where her husband - the mysterious Uncle Paul - was arrested for his first wife''s attempted murder: and family skeletons emerge. <br><br>Now, on his release from prison, is he returning for revenge, seeking who betrayed him? Or are all three women letting their nerves get the better of them? Though who really <i>is </i>Meg''s new lover? And whose are those footsteps ...?<br><br><b>''Sinister, witty and utterly