When true-crime podcaster Nora Vane receives a dying woman's final voicemail - "She's still here. Iris never left" - she follows it to Ashmore Fell, a perfect Cotswold village with honey-stone cottages and a very old secret.
Iris Calloway vanished twenty years ago. The village decided she ran away. They were wrong.
As Nora digs beneath the charm and the careful silences, she finds a community that chose its peace over a woman's life - and one man whose devotion to Iris never ended. Not even after she did.
The Loving Kind is a gripping mystery about obsession, complicity, and the most dangerous lie we tell ourselves: that love justifies everything.