The keeper of the secrets. Morton K.

The beginning of the 1960s. Seventeen -year -old Lorel Nicholson, the eldest daughter in a prosperous provincial English family, sees how her mother, Dorothy, kills a stranger who approached the house. The police, not particularly versed in circumstances, concludes that the dead is a maniac, and the mother’s act is self -defense.

Fifty years pass. Laurel is a famous actress. But the story that happened once does not come out of her head. And once, rummaging in maternal things, she finds a photograph of a woman, spouses popular before the war and now forgotten writer. Lorel feels that the answer to a riddle that does not give her rest is hidden here...