Like all of Hawkins’s other books, I found this one to be entertaining and just kind of ok. It didn’t blow my skirt up with its twists or turns. It kept me engaged but I didn’t feel the need to race back to it nonstop. It was a perfectly nice mystery - not really a thriller with surprises that didn’t really surprise me. 

Two time periods - then and now. A mysterious and mercurial artist lives on an island separated from the mainland by the tide. She uses people when she needs them and has a reclusive quality that draws people to her. Her soon to be ex husband goes missing after a visit - never to be seen again. 

An art curator and expert on the artists work finds himself working on her collection and becomes very entangled with her estate and its somewhat misanthropic executor - now living on the island. He is drawn there because an art piece on display is suspected of containing human remains. 

Whoever could they belong to?