Ooooo…this is good. What is the Lingate family hiding? Why do they come back to Capri every year? The family goes back to make sure nothing new has been found out about Sarah's death. Did someone kill Helen's mother, Sarah Lingate, or did she have an accident? Helen lost her mother on the family's vacation in Capri when she was very young, and it has always been recorded as an accident, but was it? Helen was always kept under strict guard as she grew because the family was afraid she would say something about the incident. As they do every year, the family is back in Capri and have their assistant Lorna with them. She and Helen had become friends, and Lorna knew all about how Helen grew up. What is going to happen this time? Will Lorna be under scrutiny and close watch now that she is with them? Will she be safe? She isn’t family, but does it matter? What about the necklace Sarah wore? How could it have been found after thirty years? And...who sent the necklace to the family at their villa? What does all this mean? Find out in this book that details Capri perfectly and makes you want to go there or go back. And...find out about the secrets and lies kept by this wealthy family. You won’t want to stop reading - and just wait for the twists. 5/5 Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own. (read less)

Ooooo…this is good. What is the Lingate family hiding? Why do they come back to Capri every year? The family goes back to make sure nothing new has been found out about Sarah's death. Did someone kill Helen's mother, Sarah Lingate, or did she have an accident? Helen lost her mother on the family's vacation in Capri when she was very young, and it has always been recorded as an accident, (read more)

Thirty years ago successful playwright Sarah Lingate was found dead off the cliffs of Capri. She left behind her husband and three year old daughter, Helen. Despite the suspicious circumstances of her death, it was ruled an accident. But the Lingates have never been able to fully remove themselves from the tragedy which is compounded further by the fact that they still vacation on Capri - in the same villa in fact - year after year. Now, thirty years later, the family shows up once again at the villa, but so does something else: a necklace belonging to Sarah, one she was wearing the night she died. The family has no idea who sent the necklace and what it means. There is one thing known for certain: the Lingates will go to any length to preserve their name. This story takes a deliciously long time to unfold. Delicately balancing the lines between past and present, true and false. Often blurring the latter. I mean this is, after all, a story centering on a family who will do anything to keep up appearances, including warping the truth for their own gains. I thought that Katy Hays navigates everything really well in that there's just enough pull at the end of each section to make readers anticipate what is coming up in the next section. It was an easy book to get pulled into. I do feel like it's not breaking any new ground in regards to how we view the Lingates as this affluent family with a name that "means something". It still weaves an intriguing story of wealth and power and just the general self-involved thoughts about how much stake people do place on these things. It's interesting, because I can honestly not remember if the story ever said how the Lingates acquired their wealth. I have a vague recollection of the story stating it, but I also look at it in the context of our real life society and the paradox of how people are rich and famous for being rich and famous While some of the narrative of the story has been trodden before, there were some pretty clever twists and the way everything fit together was done quite nicely. It never felt too out of reach to believe that events could unfold exactly as they do which I thought was interesting because usually there's some suspension of belief that needs to happen to make a story gel together. I will say that it was a read where I didn't care for any of the characters. They were all, essentially, out for themselves. Even Helen. Although I could definitely sympathize with her need to be free from her family and feel her desperation which made her kind of the lesser of all evils. Maybe the biggest commentary on wealth and family legacy is that I felt mostly pity for these characters and the roles they put themselves in in the name of upholding some misbegotten sense of loyalty to the family. Overall, I enjoyed the read, the descriptions of the locale were especially done well. I think it's certainly a book worth your while. (read less)

Thirty years ago successful playwright Sarah Lingate was found dead off the cliffs of Capri. She left behind her husband and three year old daughter, Helen. Despite the suspicious circumstances of her death, it was ruled an accident. But the Lingates have never been able to fully remove themselves from the tragedy which is compounded further by the fact that they still vacation on Capri (read more)