‘How could your life turn so completely upside down in a split second’
Caroline Kelly is a New York Crime reporter escaping to a country house hotel, Hare’s Landing , to escape a lawsuit.
Rachel Lambert’s houseboat if broken into and her partner, Hunter, is run over on the same day - Afraid for her safety, she leaves for Hare’s Landing to try to find out the truth about a homeless man, Alfie Bow, with links to the hotel and her break in.
Rachel and Caroline discover Hare’s Landing has it’s own secrets to reveal; a 30 year old disappearance and the death of the former hotel owner but someone is trying to prevent them from discovering the truth and could lead to devastating consequences for them both.
My first impression of the book drew me in and I was glad to have won a copy to review. There were seemingly different storylines initially, the threads of these peoples lives were carefully woven together and I liked the fact that the main characters turned out to be two strong independent women as the book progressed.
There were quite a lot of secondary characters to keep track of, possibly because there were multiple story threads to populate which I found tricky to start with, I particularly liked the threatening creepy housekeeper and I would have liked to see her used a bit more - I had her pictured as a Annie Wilkes a-like from Misery in my head!
The story moved quickly and I thought I’d got it sussed about half way through only to find I was way off track. The screw was subtly turned to ratchet up the tension and it kept me reading, I stayed up late to finish as I needed to know the ending which is always a good sign.
Sam Blake is a new writer I have discovered and I will certainly be reading more of her titles in future.
A solid 🌟🌟🌟🌟 read.
Caroline Kelly is a New York Crime reporter escaping to a country house hotel, Hare’s Landing , to escape a lawsuit.
Rachel Lambert’s houseboat if broken into and her partner, Hunter, is run over on the same day - Afraid for her safety, she leaves for Hare’s Landing to try to find out the truth about a homeless man, Alfie Bow, with links to the hotel and her break in.
Rachel and Caroline discover Hare’s Landing has it’s own secrets to reveal; a 30 year old disappearance and the death of the former hotel owner but someone is trying to prevent them from discovering the truth and could lead to devastating consequences for them both.
My first impression of the book drew me in and I was glad to have won a copy to review. There were seemingly different storylines initially, the threads of these peoples lives were carefully woven together and I liked the fact that the main characters turned out to be two strong independent women as the book progressed.
There were quite a lot of secondary characters to keep track of, possibly because there were multiple story threads to populate which I found tricky to start with, I particularly liked the threatening creepy housekeeper and I would have liked to see her used a bit more - I had her pictured as a Annie Wilkes a-like from Misery in my head!
The story moved quickly and I thought I’d got it sussed about half way through only to find I was way off track. The screw was subtly turned to ratchet up the tension and it kept me reading, I stayed up late to finish as I needed to know the ending which is always a good sign.
Sam Blake is a new writer I have discovered and I will certainly be reading more of her titles in future.
A solid 🌟🌟🌟🌟 read.