A Private Sorrow

It's been just over a year since the opening of McQueen's Agency and already Molly is expanding the business. She's determined to move forward with her life, renovating the flat above the agency and putting last year's traumatic events behind her. But trouble seems to follow Molly and when a client's friend approaches her about helping discover the truth behind her daughter's disappearance, she sets out to unravel a web of lies twenty-five years in the making. Though Molly's investigation keeps meeting dead-ends, someone is willing to go to any length to ensure the past remains hidden. As people are hurt and Molly's own life is threatened, she quickly learns that what happened in the past is sometimes better left forgotten. "This is a cracking mystery story that will have you hooked." THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND It's been just over a year since the opening of McQueen's Agency and already Molly is expanding the business. She's determined to move forward with her life, renovating the flat above the agency and putting last year's traumatic events behind her.
But trouble seems to follow Molly and when a client's friend approaches her about helping discover the truth behind her daughter's disappearance, she sets out to unravel a web of lies twenty-five years in the making.
Though Molly's investigation keeps meeting dead-ends, someone is willing to go to any length to ensure the past remains hidden. As people are hurt and Molly's own life is threatened, she quickly learns that what happened in the past is sometimes better left forgotten.
"This is a cracking mystery story that will have you hooked."
THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND It is autumn 1954, and after the success of Molly McQueen's detective agency, she decides to add a new domestic branch. It is not long before one of the newly hired employees, Maisie, uncovers a riveting mystery by accident while visiting a client. Vera Barton's husband Dave and young daughter Etta went missing in 1930. After Dave's body was found, everyone assumed the worst. But decades later, Molly reluctantly agrees to take up the search for the long-lost child, and ends up unravelling a tale of misery and revenge, laced with family secrets and heartbreak.