The Crocodile Bird — Ruth Rendell

A mother and daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world all of her sixteen years. And that she has seen her beautiful mother commit murder...more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother's tale of betrayal, desire and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.