The woman in the woods by Lesley pearce

Blurb from Amazon
Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until the fateful day in the wood . . .
One night in 1960, the twins awake to find their father pulling their screaming mother from the house. She is to be committed to an asylum. It is, so their father insists, for her own good.
It's not long before they, too, are removed from their London home and sent to Nightingales - a large house deep in the New Forest countryside - to be watched over by their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham. Though they feel abandoned and unloved, at least here they have something they never had before - freedom.
The twins are left to their own devices, to explore, find new friends and first romances. That is until the day that Duncan doesn't come back for dinner. Nor does he return the next day. Or the one after that.
When the bodies of other young boys are discovered in the surrounding area the police appear to give up hope of finding Duncan alive. With Mrs Mitcham showing little interest in her grandson's disappearance, it is up to Maisy to discover the truth. And she knows just where to start. The woman who lives alone in the wood about whom so many rumours abound. A woman named Grace Deville.
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So when Maisy and Duncan are shipped off to the unloving grandmothers they are feeling an abandoned but have got the most of the freedom they didn't have before.
Not knowing whats happened to their mother or the reason why they was shipped off to their grandmothers they make the best of the situation they can.
Janice is their grandmothers housemaid and she is the one who shows them the love and attention they don't get off their grandmother and father. Janice gives them both a bike so they can go out and explore. That's when they come across the woman in the wood Grace deville.
They cycle back home to ask Janice about Grace and Duncan is hooked into finding out more about Grace so when Maisy decides she doesn't want to go with him one day he goes on his own. They form an unusual friendship that only they now about.
So when Duncan goes missing and his grandmother shows no interest in finding him she demands her father is told but he reacts the same as her grandmother does. So its down to Maisy to find him but when its been a long time and no one has seen or heard anything they think the worst and have to try to get on with there life. Maisy decides to find a job in brighten she has gone against her fathers and grandmothers wises of not going to university and getting her qualifications. Until her job is nearing end she decides to go back and try once more to find Duncan and with the help of Grace they are shocked what they find out I won't spoil it for anyone but I will put it this way I loved this book but then again i love all of Lesley's books and if i can give it more than 5 stars then i would do. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend this book to everyone even none book people.
I like the style in how Lesley writes her books always draws you in from the very first page its just a shame I finish them so quickly this book only took me a few days to read and normally takes me a week or two to read books