The Buried Girl

When New York psychologist Will Hardy's wife is killed he and his teenage daughter Bernadette move into Godwin Hall a dusty shut-up mansion in the small town of Abbeville Ohio. Meanwhile Abbeville Chief of Police Ivy Holgrave is investigating the death of a local girl convinced this may only be the latest in a long line of murders dating back decades - including her own long-missing sister. But what place does Will's new home have in the story of the missing girls? And what links the killings to the diary of a young woman written over a century earlier?