Swimming Lessons

"A mystery built around a set of letters hidden in various old books – stories within stories within a story. How delicious! Claire Fuller’s Swimming Lessons is a kind of anti-cozy cozy mystery. Flora’s novelist father lost his wife, Ingrid, over a decade ago, and now he thinks he has seen her again. When he tries to follow her, he has a terrible accident, and his daughters (Flora and Nan) come to a seaside family home to nurse him back to health. Then, Flora starts finding her mother’s letters and realizes they offer an alternative narrative of her parents’ marriage that may unlock the secret of Ingrid’s disappearance."