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From Jess Kidd, bestselling author of Things in Jars, praised by Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author, as being “so good it isn’t fair,” comes the captivating first installment in a cozy mystery series featuring a former nun seeking answers in a small seaside village after the puzzling disappearance of her pen pal.

“I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret.”

In 1954, Nora Breen becomes alarmed when regular letters from her close friend Frieda, a former novice, abruptly stop arriving. Deeply unsettled by a troubling line in Frieda’s final letter, Nora requests to be released from her vows and travels to Gulls Nest, an inviting seaside hotel located in the picturesque Kent town of Gore-on-Sea. With its fresh sea air and relaxed atmosphere, it seems to Nora the ideal location to begin anew. Keeping her true identity secret, she subtly investigates the other hotel guests, hoping to uncover the truth behind her friend’s silence. Yet when a string of unsettling murders shakes the peaceful community at Gulls Nest, Nora must confront the disturbing possibility that old, hidden secrets never really stay buried.