Publication Date 5th August 2021
Published by Little, Brown Book Group UK, (Sphere)
Genre: General Fiction
Book Description:
Eleven murders. Twenty-five years ago.
Are some truths better left buried?
On 15th June 1994, Travis Green - husband, father, upstanding citizen - walked through the streets of Hartstead and killed eleven of his neighbours. The final victim was four-year-old Cassie Colman's father.
As the twenty-five year anniversary approaches, Cassie would rather forget the past - even as her mother struggles to remember it at all. Then something hidden in her mother's possessions suggests those eleven murders were not what everyone believes.
Once Cassie suspects she's been lied to about the most important event of her life, she can't stop digging up the past.
But someone will do anything to keep it buried . . .
My Thoughts:
This book looks at tragedies which affect not just one person in a town but the whole community. Just about everyone knows someone touched by the actions of Travis Green that day 25 years ago, when he took his gun and seemingly randomly shot and killed 11 locals including himself. The quarter century anniversary is coming up and the echoes from the past are getting louder - but someone wants them quitened. Who would that be and why?
Cassie has returned from her life in London with a young baby and no partner, home to her mum whose dementia is going downhill fast. Cassie had hoped to be able to manage for sometime yet but it is quickly apparent that she's going to need more support than she'd thought. Struggling with the demands of a new baby and with no other family or friends to call on, life is taking its toll on her. Then when journalist Alison Patchett approaches her for her slant on the anniversary of the shootings, Cassie wonders whether coming back to her home town was a good idea.
But help comes in strange guises and Cassie is soon re-evaluating the relationships she has begun to form.
Although the main subject of this book is unpleasant the story is well written and sympathetic to some really quite sensitive issues. There's a lot more to it than the story of a small town shooting.
Overall I enjoyed the book and was keen to get back to the story whenever I had to put it down. I wasn't sure who was to be trusted and there are some nice subtle little twists which I wasn't expecting all throughout the story. People aren't always who you expect them to be - and that can lead to good things as well as bad. It's just a case of working out who's worth investing in.About the Author:
Laura Marshall is the Sunday Times top ten and Kindle No. 1 bestselling author of three psychological thrillers. Her first two novels, FRIEND REQUEST and THREE LITTLE LIES have sold over half a million copies in the UK and been translated into twenty-five languages.
She grew up in Wiltshire, studied English at the University of Sussex and currently lives in Kent with her family.
For more information visit Laura's website www.lauramarshall.co.uk or find her at www.facebook.com/lauramarshallauthor or on Twitter @laurajm8.
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