BOOK DESCRIPTION
He’s desperate to remember. He’ll wish he could forget.
Who do you trust, when you don't know who you are?
Cameron Todd is recovering from a serious brain injury. A trauma suffered the same night his girlfriend Emma plunged to her death from a clifftop. The damage erases all memory of the incident and his previous life.
Both the police and Emma’s relatives are hunting for someone to blame and question whether his amnesia is a convenient fabrication.
Desperate to understand what happened that fateful day, self-doubt creeps in when Cameron learns his relationship with Emma might not have been picture-perfect. Is he a victim, or the perpetrator?
Can he trust his injured brain’s version of events? Or will unearthing the truth reveal something far more sinister?
Our memories are a integral part of our DNA, they are a important part of our identities and help create who we are. Now imagine if something terrible happened to you,something that wiped away all of your memories and left you with just a blank page. No memories of your life before the incident, the people that you had known,the people you had loved,the people that you had lost,your entire life just wiped clean. You have to rely on the people who say that they know you to help fill in the missing details of your life, but how do you know that you can trust them and that they are telling you the truth? Then add on top of all that the fact that someone that you had loved died,at the same location and on the same day as your incident but you can't remember what happened. All you have is vague images that keep creeping into your badly damaged brain, images that make no sense and only add to your feelings of anxiety and confusion. Your situation also isn't helped by the suspicions of others who believe that you are faking the amnesia and that you are actually guilty of a terrible crime.
After a tragic incident in Turkey that resulted in the death of his girlfriend Emma and him sustaining serious brain injuries, this is our main character Cameron Todd's new reality. He has spent the last four months obeying his sister Rachel's instructions not to do anything that causes him stress, not to become a lard ass and to definitely not speak to people that she has labelled black hats, people like private detective John Stamford. But Cameron also wants answers, he really wants to know what happened in Turkey so he starts asking questions and digging into the past. In this gripping mystery that is set against the backdrop of Britain going into our first lockdown, we follow Cameron's search for answers. Everyone keeps insisting that he and Emma had a perfect relationship but was that true? We witness his interactions with various characters including Rachel, his friends Josh and Leon, his psychiatrist Adam Spalding and John Stamford amongst others. The question was, could he really trust any of them, is Rachel really looking out for Cameron's best interests or does she have her own reasons for discouraging his search for answers? Why did she keep insisting that he shouldn't trust John Stamford? I really liked Cameron,he had a wicked sense of humour,I thought what he planned to do for his friend Vanessa was really sweet but could his narrative trustworthy or was actually a very clever, manipulative liar and a cunning killer?
Scattered throughout the story was chapters that featured Detective Sergeant Rhian Keely, the lucky officer who finds herself caught up in the crossfire between Cameron and Emma's sister Harriet who is convinced that Cameron is faking his amnesia. Keely finds herself tasked with the unenviable challenge of figuring out who is telling the truth.
Trauma is a very well written,enthralling mystery/thriller with a intricate and topical plot that keeps the reader guessing until the truth of who was involved and what actually happened in Turkey is revealed towards the end of the book. Dylan Young is a very talented author, his thrillers are compelling reads and have casts of fantastic, realistic characters. I thought this was a very enjoyable read and it's very very highly recommended.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dylan Young grew up in a mining village in South Wales before boarding a train for London. A 35-year career in the NHS followed, the last 27 as a consultant ophthalmologist. Three dark psychological thrillers for Random House emerged in the late nineties and over the last decade, under different pseudonyms, he’s written children’s books and an adult contemporary fantasy series. But retiring from the NHS has allowed Dylan to spend (even) more time in his writing office—a shed in the garden. After publishing a three book crime series with Bookouture, Dylan has now found a new home in the Bloodhound kennels where he writes standalone psychological thrillers.
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PUBLICATION DATE: 1st of December 2020
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