Nineteen-year-old Annie Taylor has a dark story to tell, one of sex, betrayal, and homicide: her family’s story.
Ten years ago, her beautiful and well-loved mother disappeared. Her father, a famous sex therapist and loving husband, was charged with the murder.
But Annie stubbornly believes in her father’s innocence. She follows in his footsteps and studies psychology, desperate to understand the tragic event that has shaped her life and to exonerate the man she believes was wrongly convicted.
Annie, who will fight for the truth no matter what it reveals, starts discovering more sinister details about her family’s history. Why did her peace-loving mother have a police record? Who could explain her father’s fear of mirrors? What about the other woman in her father’s past, who is also missing? And what about her father’s warning to others of a darkness that is hidden inside each of us?
The Girl on Mill Street asks us to explore how much we really know about our own families and how our assumptions can keep us from the truth.
Never saw it coming!!!! I couldn’t put this book down! What can I say about this book. A LOT! it is never boring and keeps you trying to figure it all out. It is perfectly written. I can usually figure out the end before I get there but not with this one. It will keep you interested until the very end. I can’t wait to read more by this author.
… made me stop reading what I thought was the best book ever and started on Peter Gilboy’s novel Annie’s Secret made me stop reading what I thought was the best book ever and started on Peter Gilboy’s novel. Annie’s character carefully digs into Freudian psychology, personal histories, and events till she finally expose what really happened that morning. The tenderness between daughter and father is genuine. Annie’s Secret kept me guessing till the last page. Gilboy’s craft for involving the reader in introspection to figure out who we are is masterful.
The Mystery No Young Girl Should Ever Have to Solve Peter Gilboy is not an “on the nose” kind of writer. He’s subtle, smooth and you hardly feel it as you get hooked into his page turner that catches you off guard at every turn, until the final piece of the puzzle clicks into place, and your stomach drops as if you are in a crashing elevator–which you sort of are.