About The Book
Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return . . .
With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine world of antiques and shadowy figures, far from the grand stucco terraces. There she befriends another young person living on their wits. But can he help solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance?
Twenty-one years later, in a Parisian apartment, Maggie’s phone rings and her hard-won grown-up life shatters. While in London, the new owner of the Parker’s old Notting Hill house is excavating a basement, unaware of what might lie beneath, and the clock starts ticking on buried secrets.
About the Author
Eve Chase writes page-turning mysteries set in beautiful places, thick with secrets. Her novels include The Birdcage, The Glass House. The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde and Black Rabbit Hall. The Glass House was a Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, and she has previously won the Saint-Maur en Poche prize in Paris for Best Foreign Fiction and been longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. The Midnight Hour is her fifth novel. Married with three children, she lives in Oxford.
