A stranger stirs up a woman's buried memories in this psychological mystery.

Daisy Summers. The name sounds vaguely familiar to the bored woman staying in a Switzerland hotel for her health. The man who uttered Daisy's name insists the woman knew her. They were friends, cousins perhaps. He saw them interact at a luncheon many years ago. Before Daisy's tragic death.

Who is Daisy Summers? A girl from a woman's past, long forgotten? Or a haunting memory that she cannot escape?

"A wholly entrancing narrative. . . . Kohler has a fine ear for truth and untruth and the musical possibilities of their interplay." —J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize–winning author

"Once in a while a novel appears which stands out. . . . The Perfect Place is such a book . . . convincing as case history, and an engrossing entertainment." —The Sunday Times