It Could Have Been Her (Target Exclusive) - by Lisa Jewell (Hardcover)

"Jane Trevally is walking her dogs in the bluebell woods near her country estate one May afternoon when a small white dog appears. Her local vet tells her that the dog is registered to an owner in London, and as her favourite stepson lives nearby Jane decides to take the dog back to its owner herself. When a scruffy man called Stuart opens the door to a spooky looking house in the darkest backwaters of Hampstead, Jane gets a bad feeling about him.

Stuart Tucker lives in the last house in Hampstead. Greentiles is a ramshackle cottage tucked into a quiet corner of the Heath surrounded by wild parkland on all sides. An overly chatty woman called Jane Trevally has found his dog, Hugo, wandering in a wood somewhere far away. He tells the woman that the dog must have been stolen from the Heath, though he knows that's not true. But Stuart Tucker is the custodian of Greentiles' many secrets and cannot risk letting anyone in.

Rose White has rented a sweet Airbnb in the Dorset countryside for a week or two. She tells the rental's owner that she is there to study for her exams, away from the bustle and noise of her family home. But a week after she arrives, she disappears, leaving her small white dog Hugo wandering in the woods and all her possessions abandoned.

Jane is bored and has a newly developed taste for a mystery-solving after being involved in the case of a romance scammer called Simon Smith a few months earlier, so when her ex husband offers to lend her his Covent Garden town house as a base, she decides to find out what has happened to Rose White and what is her connection to Greentiles, the house at the end of the world."