My thoughts
This was a slow burn, took me a while to warm to it but once it gained momentum it really packs a punch with twists that bugged me has I so wanted to work it out. I never did. The writing is that good that whilst the clues are there I missed them totally.
This is very 1970s with the cassette tapes but topped up with modern day technology and voice notes.
The conclusion was not what I was expecting, I really wanted a different outcome for Eve and her mum but as for the murderers well I never saw that coming.
About:
Eve is clearing her father’s house when she finds an old cassette player and a box of tapes. Though grieving, she smiles at the spark of nostalgia.
One tape is labelled ‘Eve’ – in her mother, Angela’s, scrawled handwriting. She disappeared for good more than ten years ago.
The tape whirrs. A voice crackles. ‘My name is Angela’. Tears fill Eve’s eyes at the familiar voice, at the thought this message is just for her. But the next words make her heart pound.
‘If they say I’m missing, I’m not. If you’re listening to this, I’ve been murdered.’
Desperate for answers, Eve has no one left to ask – only a box of tapes that could lead to the truth. But the more she listens, the more she realises she can never go to the police…
Because Eve’s mother had her own secrets. But what if her killer is still out there? And what if Eve is next?
