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"how can Rose keep her family safe if she is the last to know the truth? "
Synopsis
A family’s past pursues them like a shadow in this riveting and emotional novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of All the Little Children.
American journalist Rose Kynaston has just relocated to the childhood home of her husband, Dylan, in the English village of his youth. There’s a lot for Rose to get used to in Hurtwood. Like the family’s crumbling mansion, inhabited by Dylan’s reclusive mother, and the treacherous hill it sits upon, a place of both sinister folklore and present dangers.
Then there are the unwelcoming villagers, who only whisper the name Kynaston—like some dreadful secret, a curse. Everyone knows what happened at Hurtwood House twenty years ago. Everyone except Rose. And now that Dylan is back, so are rumors about his past.
When an archaeological dig unearths human remains on the hill, local police sergeant Ellie Trevelyan vows to solve a cold case that has cast a chill over Hurtwood for decades.
As Ellie works to separate rumor from fact, Rose must fight to clear the name of the man she loves. But how can Rose keep her family safe if she is the last to know the truth?
My Review
In this read we meet the Kynaston family.
Rose was an american journalist but now returns to her husband Dylan's childhood town with there young son Aled, moving into a cottage beside the family home "Hurtwood House", still lived in by Dylan's mother.
But moving to a place where everyone knows everyone is never easy, more so as Dylan's mother Gwendoline Kynaston is seen as so cold and eccentic by the town.
but Rose tries her best to make the cottage home and in turn the town. Yet the kynaston name is disliked so much that Rose is not even given a chance.
But this sparks the journalist in Rose she starts digging in to why Dylans family are so hated in the town and in doing so uncovers the death of a young boy near to Hurtwood House 20 years before. the death was blamed on Dylans father and the hatred started.
Then when an archaeological dig uncovers another body near to the house the rumours start, is Rose really ready to uncover the secrets of her husbands family?
This was a read that I just could not put down, I flew through the pages as the need to know and the suspense just ebbed up again and again! Packed with amazing twists and turns, I felt quite connected to the main characters and there hunt for the truth and the book had this wonderful house almost a character in its self which added this chilling spookiness to the events that unfold.
The perfect, thriller and mystery all rolled in to one with a haunting chill and secret to its tale.
Author Bio
After spending a decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo Furniss gave up the glamour of night shifts to become a freelance writer and serial expatriate.
Originally from the United Kingdom, she spent seven years in Singapore and also lived in Switzerland and Cameroon.
As a journalist, Jo worked for numerous online outlets and magazines, including Monocle and the Economist. She has edited books for a Nobel laureate and the palace of the Sultan of Brunei.
She has a Distinction in MA Professional Writing from Falmouth University. Jo's debut novel, All the Little Children, was an Amazon Charts bestseller.
Connect with her via Facebook (/JoFurnissAuthor) and Twitter (@Jo_Furniss) or through her website: http://www.jofurniss.com/
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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.