The first few chapters of this book are scene setters so please don’t think you’ve stumbled across an urban romance, because that’s the last thing this book is.
This is a psychological thriller, and it’s a very good one.
Based around three families living in close proximity to each other this story could be happening on any street in the U.K.
Lily is a single mom to a young girl. Only 22 herself she is wondering what happened to her dream of a successful career and a university degree.
When her little sister Jasmin, 18, goes missing after a night out her mother spins into a panic.
Meanwhile two outwardly happy couples, both with children in the same nursery class as Lily’s girl are hiding troubled relationships.
Katherine and her controlling husband are in a destructive relationship. He’s controlling and increasingly heavy handed with her, she wants to go back to work and have her own life.
Tom and Carol appear to be the ideal couple, she’s a successful doctor and he’s a stay at home dad. So when he goes out after an argument and gets drunk and stoned it is out of character. So is the fact that he had drunken sex with an 18 year old girl in the toilet of the pub.
The problem is the girl he had sex with turns out to be the missing girl Jasmin, and he appears to be the last one to see her.
The story revolves around these three families and particularly Lily trying to find out what happened to her sister.
All the women like Tom and he’s that central overlapping part of the Venn Diagram made up of the sexual relationships between the three families.
This is a cracking story.
I can almost guarantee that you will never look at families doing the school run the same again. Yet as shocking as the murder is, the relationships and the characters are very, very believable.
Pages: 352 (paperback) Publisher: Mind Brief Publishing
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