April 2023
ISBN: 9780733649547
About:
Mother’s intuition or a deadly guilty conscience? A woman races against time to find her son in this tense and twisty thriller by the Top Ten bestselling author of The Wrong Woman. As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8 pm to get to their homes. Wherever they are when the curfew begins, they must live for four weeks and stay within five kilometres of. When Lou’s son, Samuel, doesn’t arrive home by nightfall, she begins to panic. He doesn’t answer his phone. He doesn’t message. His social media channels are inactive. Lou is out of her mind with worry, but she can’t go to the police, because she has secrets of her own. Secrets that Samuel just can’t find out about. Lou must find her son herself and bring him home.
Review:
I was surprised at how short this book was wrapping up at 158 pages.
It’s fast-paced, gripping with a twist I didn’t expect. However, I felt it ended too quickly and wrapped up sharply, leaving me feeling a bit short -changed.
That doesn’t, however, detract from the fact that this is an excellent plot.
Samuel is growing up in a broken household, with dad Marko remarried and mum Lou bringing Samuel up on her own. Marko appears distant to his son whilst Lou is always on high alert, worrying about him.
Both parents harbour a dark secret that Samuel must never know. But Lou as brought Samuel up to never lie (which is an underlying theme throughout this story), and now he’s disappeared. Lou and Marko now must come together to find him knowing their secret could be exposed.
The story continues to tell us Samuel’s side even when he’s gone missing, giving you insight into what is happening to him as he slowly discovers his parents’ deepest dark lie.
Love makes us do crazy things.
