Tuesday, 27 February 2018

#BlogTour #Review Hiding by Jenny Morton Potts @rararesources

Hiding by Jenny Morton Potts
Book Description:

A gripping psychological thriller with chilling twists, from a unique new voice. 

Keller Baye and Rebecca Brown live on different sides of the Atlantic. Until she falls in love with him, Rebecca knows nothing of Keller. But he’s known about her for a very long time, and now he wants to destroy her.

This is the story of two families. One living under the threat of execution in North Carolina. The other caught up in a dark mystery in the Scottish Highlands. The families’ paths are destined to cross. But why? And can anything save them when that happens?


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My review:
The beginning of this book is told from two points of view, Rebecca Brown who is an orphan living is Scotland and Keller Baye whose father is on death row for shooting a man during a failed bank raid. The two threads of the story are each very good as separate stories and for the first half of the book I enjoyed reading each of them although despite knowing that they must intersect at some point it was not clear how and why this would happen.  
Rebecca is a bit of a dreamer who was far too young to remember much about how she and her siblings came to be staying with their grandparents in scary Taransay which stood in the wilds of Scotland and had bars on the windows. Brother Austen lives away at boarding school and sister Colette is educated at grammar school, leaving just Rebecca at the local state school. Grandfather Ralph and Rebecca are close and spend a lot of time together in his study while grandmother Primmy is controlling and doesn't allow Rebecca to go anywhere or do anything other than her school work.

Meanwhile Keller's father Othaniel is executed by lethal injection in the USA, witnessed by Keller.  On his father's incarceration Keller is sent to live with his aunt Joya who only puts a roof over his head in return for the payment the local authorities give her for doing so. She barely shows him any care, regularly locking him out of the house overnight and not providing food for him.  Keller goes off the rails in spectacular fashion and this experience sets up the path of his future life.

The two storylines pretty much collide when Keller tracks down Rebecca and travels to Scotland under a fake identity to find her. Becky has no idea who he is and falls for his charms with no idea the danger she is putting herself in.
I was drawn well and truly into the story right from the start and was interested to find out what linked the two characters and why Keller would go to the trouble and expense of travelling to Scotland to find Becky.  The author builds tension steadily along the way and the climax to the story was not what I expected at all. Personally I would have liked more of a back story to the older generation in the tale and I think this would have added a little more depth to the characters but other than that I found this a very enjoyable novel and will look out for further work by this author.

About the author

Jenny is a novelist, screenplay writer and playwright. After a series of 'proper jobs', she realised she was living someone else's life and escaped to Gascony to make gîtes. Knee deep in cement and pregnant, Jenny was happy. Then autism and a distracted spine surgeon wiped out the order. Returned to wonderful England, to write her socks off.
Jenny would like to see the Northern Lights but worries that’s the best bit and should be saved till last. Very happily, and gratefully, settled with family.
She tries not to take herself too seriously.

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