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"Every year, on the same night, another girl disappears without a trace."
Synopsis
Lex's wife is missing.
She left for work the morning of a terror attack in London, and no one's seen her since. Was Olivia among the victims or did she meet a different fate?
Addie has a secret.
That same day, her dad came home covered in blood. Addie thought he'd been hurt in the attacks, but her sister Jessie found the missing woman's purse in his room.
Jessie says she wants to help.
She takes a job as a nanny at Lex's house, looking after his baby. But she's not telling him the truth. And she's getting a little too comfortable living Olivia's life...
My Review
This was my first read by this author and I was completely obsessed so much so I now have her previous read "The Tall Man" winging its was to me via Amazon.
This read span 12 years from 2005 through to 2012 and in it we meet Addie turning 10 years old as the story starts and we follow her life and the lives of her family through this time and the year murders of the Chilling serial killer Magpie
On July 7th 2005 most will remember the bombings in London that are used as a background to this part of the read, while most people remember the shocking events and the loss of lives, Addie remembers that it was the night when her father returned home covered in blood And the news hot on the case of a missing women.
Haunted by the event Addie digs further involving her sister Jessie they uncover a purse belonging to the women in the wall of her father's bedroom, visiting the missing women's husband, Jessie entwists herself in his life and that of his baby daughter.
Jessie persuades Addie not to say anything, that it is all a mistake and Addie been young accepts this but it still lingers in her mind is all as ok as Jessie makes it out or is Jessie just getting a bit too comfortable in a missing women's life.
As the years pass the nagging pull in Addie's mind becomes overwhelming, she is convinced that her father is Magpie but she is at a loss of what to do? as year on year on her birthday July 7th women continue to go missing.
1 woman, every year on July 7th, but nothing is what it seems and the biggest shocks are yet to come.
As a spoiler free blog, I can say no more on the plot but this was a thrilling and complex read where Addie's story is wonderfully interwoven with cut out chapters of the Magpie bestseller that is published in the book.
I found the characters of Adie and Jessie and their relationship captivating everything they are going through and have to go through later in the read is really compelling and I really felt for them
the story is just so taught and filled with the bubbling tension that you just know is going to break your just not sure when, yet when it did wow! what a twist, I honestly thought I had this read worked out but I was absolutely wrong the last few chapters blew me away!
This is the best and most original serial killer based crime novel I have had the pleasure to read this year, and i cannot wait to get stuck in to "The Tall Man" when it arrives, this is an author to look out for in the genre!
Author Bio
Phoebe Locke is a full-time writer, part-time doer of odd jobs. These jobs have included Christmas Elf, cocktail waitress, and childminder.
Her first novel (written as Nicci Cloke), Someday Find Me, was published in 2012 and her second, Lay Me Down, in 2015. She has also written three novels for young adults: Follow Me Back (2016), Close Your Eyes (2017) and Toxic (2018).
She lives and writes in Cambridgeshire, and her debut psychological thriller The Tall Man was published in 2018.
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Thank you to the Publisher and Author for sending me an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel and for the opportunity to review these works.
All reviews are my own unbiased opinion.
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