SPOILERS!!!
Hannah Morton manages the library in the prison in Millhaven. Lately she has not had a good time as her husband, Jonathan, left her two weeks before for Eve, the PE teacher in the school where he also works. Hannah has a daughter, Rosie, who she often locks horns with.
When Hannah receives a letter from her best friend, Sally, asking her to join her at the school reunion, she decides to accept the invitation. Rosie agrees to go with her because her friend, Mel, a girl who is anorexic, and her boyfriend, Joe, who Rosie is in love with, are leaving for a holiday in Portugal. Mother and daughter leave and stay in the hotel that Sally's second husband owns. Hannah is surprised to discover that her friend's current husband, Spence, used to be their teacher and they even had a nickname for them.
At the reunion Hannah talks to many of her former classmates, and it is there that Sally tells her that the body found in the lake is of Michael Grey. Hannah and Michael used to date, and now the police want to talk to her. Hannah talks to Peter and Stout, and she tells them what she knows about Michael. He liked to surround himself by mystery, and she doesn't know if the things that he told her about his background were true. His mother had died, and from what he said, his father was some kind of diplomat who he didn't see often, and that is why he was living with the Brices. At first Hannah and Michael were just friends, but they became an item months later when Hannah intentionally went out of her way to make him jealous. They were never lovers as there was never intimacy between them.
Hannah returns home, and some days later the detectives come to talk to her again. They find it strange that she never reported his disappearance, and she tells them that she and Michael had a row and broke up, and then the day after the play in which Michael was the main role the Brices told her that he was gone, and she didn't find it strange that he left without saying anything. When the detectives go and Rosie comes home, she tells her that the police suspect her of killing Michael.
Rosie finds herself in some trouble when her friend Mel's father, Richard, calls her. Mel is missing, and Rosie goes to the house. Mel's parents tell her that they allowed Mel to go out the night before because she claimed she wanted to see Rosie in the pub where she works. Rosie explains that her boss let her go home early, and when she calls Frank, her boss, he says that Mel was there a couple of minutes but then she left when she didn't find Rosie. Joe is also called but he also has no idea where Mel is.
This is getting more and more interesting. We know that Hannah is not telling the police the whole truth, and I wonder why he needs to conceal information. Does she know anything? And I wonder if Mel's disappearance may be more serious that it seems so far.
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