By: Kerry Wilkinson
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About the Book
‘Is that you, darling?’ A second of silence before her son replies. ‘It wasn’t me’. Her heart breaks at the pain in his voice – he sounds like a little boy again. Thirty minutes later, the police knock at the door. ‘Your son’s girlfriend is dead.’ And Dan has disappeared.
It’s almost midnight when Jennifer sees her son’s name flash up on her phone. Away at university, she’s normally so happy when he calls. But something is terribly wrong…
Jennifer is devastated for poor Ella’s family – losing their precious girl, so young. She knows her sweet son, just twenty years old, would never, ever harm anyone. But the police are looking for him. And if Dan is innocent, why has he run?
When Jennifer hears how Ella died, her blood runs cold. Because Jennifer’s best friend was murdered twenty years ago the same way. In the same place. Jennifer hasn’t been back since… but now, she has no choice.
She would do anything for her son. Any mother would. But how far will she have to go – what secrets in her own past will she have to confront – to prove Dan is innocent?
And what if the truth is worse than she ever imagined?
My Review
This book is full of suspense and action from start to finish. A lot of books describe themselves as gripping, and this one that is actually gripping from start to finish. Jennifer acted as any mother would act in her position. She wanted to try to find her son and make sure he was safe. I think that was the perfect way to describe her motivation for her actions. It made everything she did make sense.
I loved that I got a real sense of who Daniel was through the other characters, especially Ella’s mother. It was through these other characters that I started to question whether he should be the real suspect or whether he really pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes!
The book also weaves in Jennifer’s past and what happened to her when she attended that University; it explains why she hasn’t been back to the area since. Those chapters are quick but engaging. In fact, the whole be is a quick and engaging read. This is a book that can easily be read in one sitting. I promise, you’ll be so into it you won’t even realize that you’ve read it so quickly! So what are you waiting for, go get this book!
About the Author
Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.
He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.
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