The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton Summary
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A WWII photograph hides a shocking family secret in Morton's masterful mystery, translated into 22 languages and crowned Australia's Book of the Year. What deadly truth lies beneath a mother's perfect facade? Discover why 172,000 readers can't stop talking about this twisting tale.
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Secrets Hidden in Plain Sight
In the summer of 1961, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses something unthinkable from her childhood treehouse. Her mother Dorothy-a woman known for her warm hugs and homemade cakes-calmly stabs a stranger to death in their garden. More shocking still, the man had called Dorothy by name with unmistakable familiarity before she plunged the cake knife into his chest. When questioned by police, Laurel constructs a careful narrative of self-defense, but privately, she can't shake the feeling that she's protecting a terrible secret. Fifty years later, with her mother approaching death, Laurel returns to the family farmhouse. The mystery that has shadowed her life demands resolution. Who was the stranger? Why did her mother kill him? And most troublingly-who was Dorothy before she became their mother? The answers lie buried in wartime London, where three lives intertwined in ways that would echo across generations.
The London Blitz: Where Identities Unravel
The Blackmail Scheme That Changed Everything
A Life Rebuilt From Ashes
When The Past Comes Calling
Piecing Together The Truth
The Healing Power of Understanding
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