<b>"</b><b>Completely blew me away"</b> <b>Lisa Hall, author of the No.1 bestselling psychological thriller <i>Between You and Me</i>. A brilliant and gripping thriller that everyone is talking about...</b><br><br>Tall Oaks is an idyllic small town, until the disappearance of a young child throws the tight-knit community into crisis.<br><br>Jess Monroe, the boy's distraught mother, is simultaneously leading the search and battling her own grief and self-destructive behaviour. Her neighbours watch on, their sympathy masking a string of dark secrets.<br><br>This is a small town where nothing is as it seems, and everyone has something to hide. And as the investigation draws towards a climax, prepare for a devastating final twist...<br><br><b>Dark but laugh-out-loud funny, full of suspense and packed with twists, this brilliant new thriller is like nothing you've read before. </b><br><br><b>SEE WHAT THE WORLD IS ALREADY SAYING ABOUT THIS BRILLIANT DEBUT NOVEL</b><br><br><b>"I always know when a book has completely blown me away - as a reader, I want to weep because I've finished it and I will never again get to experience it for the first time, and as a writer, it makes me want to weep because I wish I had written it myself. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE BOOKS."</b><br><b>Lisa Hall, author of the No.1 Bestseller <i>Between You and Me</i></b><br><br><b>"One of the best books I've read this year" Jo Spain, bestselling author of <i>With Our Blessing</i></b><br><br><b>"A gripping debut" <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><br><b>"Chris Whitaker builds an entire town in the reader's head and masterfully inhabits it with comic, poignant, gripping life. Tall Oaks becomes a part of you." David Whitehouse, author of <i>Bed</i> and <i>Mobile Library</i></b>