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The House With No Rooms
The House With No Rooms
The House With No Rooms
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The House With No Rooms

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A woman lies dead on the ground. A girl watches from the shadows. What did she really see?

The summer of 1976 was the hottest in living memory. A lost little girl, dizzied by the head, stumbled upon a deserted museum. She thought she saw a woman lying dead on the ground. But when she opened her eyes, the woman had gone.

Forty years later, cleaner and detective Stella Darnell is investigating a suspected murder in the Botanical Gardens at Kew. Working methodically, stain by stain, she is drawn into an obsessive world, and towards a killer who has never been caught...

THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES:
The Detective's Daughter.

Ghost Girl.

The Detective's Secret.

The House With No Rooms.

The Dog Walker.

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LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 21, 2016
ISBN9781784972202
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Lesley Thomson

Lesley Thomson grew up in west London. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter, was a #1 bestseller and the resulting series has sold over 750,000 copies. Lesley divides her time between Sussex and Gloucestershire. She lives with her partner and her dog. Visit her website at www.lesleythomson.co.uk.

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