Past Shadows — Anthea Fraser

When schoolteacher Annabel Kendal receives her annual invitation to her grandmother's birthday celebrations, she is not keen to attend. For the apparently happy occasion revives long-buried memories of an earlier, fateful holiday . . .

Every summer Annabel Kendal joins her extended family on a holiday at her grandmother's house in Devon.

Yet a dark shadow casts its presence over each trip �" 28 years ago Annabel's Aunt Hilary was brutally murdered on a similar holiday when Annabel was just a toddler.

With no one found guilty, the subject has been hushed away and is now taboo on their trips.

When an over-zealous journalist starts digging around the murder, the suspicion and guilt in Annabel's family comes back to the surface.

Annabel starts researching into the truth, and the discovery of her much-maligned French mother Monique's diary reveals some alarming details.

With the added pressure of her marriage struggling and a series of anonymous phone calls, Annabel is drawn into the middle of a dark family secret.