Here is another one by Gillian White who has become my new favourite author. She tingle's one's spine.Desmond is an immature mommy's boy, a young man who lives with his domineering mother and doesn't have any real friends. On holiday by himself at the coast, while exploring a cave, he stumbles upon a skeleton, and not just any old skeleton, this one is wearing a nun's habit.
Here also we meet the Pilkingtons, an upper crust family in their holiday home, the three sons, their wives and children, the Grandmother, and one mystery guest.
A second incident lands Desmond in the heart of this complex family. As the author explores the minds of each of these people, we learn of the past, things that happened, how each one of them came to be in his or her present circumstances, the secrets and lies and sins that have long laid hidden and are about to come to light.
Who is the skeleton? How did this person die and come to be in the cave on a deserted stretch of beach, undiscovered for so long?
Some members of the family knew about the skeleton and think they know who it once was, and continual wrong assumptions bring this story to its horrifying conclusion, as revenge is sought on the assumed perpetrators.
Gillian White is one of those writers who relies upon the strangest coincidences to bring chills to the reader as they suddenly realise what the story is all about.
Sounds like a good read!! :)
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