The story is about a (dysfunctional) family living on an island and the mystery involving Jack and Alice Munro who vanished from the island 70+ years ago. Sisters Rose and Connie had gone to see Jack and Alice and discovered them missing but their baby, Enigma, seemed to be abandoned by her parents. Jack and Alice were never found and the mystery surrounding their disappearance was never solved.
Rose and Connie raised baby Enigma as their own and gave tours of the home her parents had disappeared from as a means to bring in some money. All these years later, the family is very well off but they continue the daily tours and have an annual celebration on the anniversary of when Jack and Alice disappeared.
The author took a lot of time developing characters in this story, which I liked. The problem with that though is that she had a lot of characters in the story and it took a while before I could keep straight the relationships . . . there were five generations of individuals and at least 9 characters whose head we get into at different times. I've been having some difficulties keeping information straight in my head lately though so the issues keeping things straight could just be me and not a writing issue.
As with other of this author's books, the obvious big mystery of the book isn't the only one revealed during the telling of the story. I did figure out some, others I was wrong in my guesses. But the book also has a surprise twist ending that I didn't see coming.
I enjoyed it.
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