Human bones are found in a bag in the Thames River, and are eventually linked to the deaths of three people in a mansion in Chelsea thirty years ago. Meanwhile, a woman‒Lucy‒is reunited with Libby, a daughter she had in her teens, while she and her two younger children are living with Henry, her very odd brother. When Lucy and Henry were young, they lived in that mansion in Chelsea, and fled, and are now using different names. Meanwhile, Libby's boyfriend is a journalist who has tracked down Phineas, the man who is Libby's father, and Henry (who sometimes calls himself Phineas) is obsessed with wanting to see him again. In yet another related side story, a woman named Rachel falls for a man named Michael, who had been married to Lucy at one time.
The setting moves between England and Chicago and France. The time shifts between 2017 and 2019. The well-drawn characters include the very odd, the very sweet, the very bad, a young computer sleuth, a motorcycle tour guide, and more. The detective on the case is Samuel Owusu, and he tallies up all the lies that keep coming. But what has really happened? I found this a compelling read, with lots of surprises.
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