Photo credit: Hodder/Vikki Patis

This book had such a complex storyline that I was gripped from start to finish, wondering what the next twist or reveal would be!  This book was really hard to tear myself away from, it’s a storyline that you can easily become immersed. Characters, setting and storyline are all really compelling. I got to about 40% and the book just flew and flew until that completely unpredictable ending. I really like books that keep you guessing and have revelations even after you think everything has been revealed.

I also really enjoyed the setting – Cornwall is so often written as a beautiful setting (and don’t get me wrong, it is in this book) but the desolation and  isolation are really clear in this book. Wonderfully portrayed by Vikki throughout. I can’t wait to read more books from this Author!

About the Book…

You can run from your past, but you can’t hide forever…

Rebecca Bray has moved on from a childhood she desperately wants to forget.

She has everything she’s ever wanted – the perfect fiancé, a loving stepdaughter, a career she’s proud of, and now the house of her dreams.

But when the family move to the Cornish village where Rebecca grew up, everything she wanted to bury from those years starts to claw at the surface.

Then, when her stepdaughter goes missing at a New Year’s Eve party, Rebecca must finally face the ghosts of her past – or Ava might never come home safely…

Genre: Psychological Thriller
Publication: E-book/HB 1st March – Paperback 26th May 2022.

About the Author…

Vikki Patis is the bestselling author of psychological thrillers In the Dark (2021), The Wake (2020), Girl, Lost (2020), The Girl Across the Street (2019), and The Diary (2018). Girl, Lost, a top 100 bestseller on Amazon, was later longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2020. Her next thriller, Return to Blackwater House, will be published in March 2022 by Hodder & Stoughton.

Vikki also runs The Bandwagon blog and the Psychological Suspense Authors’ Association, and has written for various publications. After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2016 and coeliac disease in 2018, she tries to raise awareness of living with a chronic illness through her writing, and includes a diverse range of characters in her fiction. She lives in Scotland with her wife, two wild golden retrievers, and an even wilder cat.

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Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher and author for a copy of this book.

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