BOOK DESCRIPTION
I stare at the newspaper article about a baby snatched from the back of a car thirty years ago, and wonder why someone would post it through my door. Looking closer, my blood freezes. The little girl in the photo has an unusual scar – just like mine. I’ve never met anyone with one like it. Is this stolen child… me?
Trembling with shock, I know I have to confront my mother. My parents got me through a horrific accident, helped me find a job I love teaching art, and even with buying my own house. But was it all built on lies?
She tells me the day I was born was the best day of her life, and I’m flooded with guilt for questioning her – but why do I catch her burning papers in the garden the next day?
Then I come home to find a woman sitting on my doorstep, covered in bruises and claiming she knows who abducted me. I don’t know if I can trust her – or if I’ll be the next to get hurt.
Because all the while, I’ve been hiding my own secret. Does whoever sent the article know what really happened the day of my accident? Desperate for the truth, I break into the house of my supposed kidnapper. Inside, I find a handwritten list of names. A shiver goes down my spine as I realise wasn’t the only child to be stolen.
Then I hear a key in the lock, and I know my life is in terrible danger…
An absolutely addictive read that will have you racing through the pages and questioning everything you thought you knew about your family. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena.
Trembling with shock, I know I have to confront my mother. My parents got me through a horrific accident, helped me find a job I love teaching art, and even with buying my own house. But was it all built on lies?
She tells me the day I was born was the best day of her life, and I’m flooded with guilt for questioning her – but why do I catch her burning papers in the garden the next day?
Then I come home to find a woman sitting on my doorstep, covered in bruises and claiming she knows who abducted me. I don’t know if I can trust her – or if I’ll be the next to get hurt.
Because all the while, I’ve been hiding my own secret. Does whoever sent the article know what really happened the day of my accident? Desperate for the truth, I break into the house of my supposed kidnapper. Inside, I find a handwritten list of names. A shiver goes down my spine as I realise wasn’t the only child to be stolen.
Then I hear a key in the lock, and I know my life is in terrible danger…
An absolutely addictive read that will have you racing through the pages and questioning everything you thought you knew about your family. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena.
All the best lies are based on truth
Kerry Wilkinson returns with this thrilling, unputdownable tale of identity, friendship, lies and deception that rockets along and has more plot twists and turns than a roller coaster.
The story is written entirely from the perspective of our main character Hope Taylor who is thirty - four and organises The Creators' Club at the local community centre with her best friend Stephen. Having broken up with her boyfriend Aki, Hope's life had settled into a bit of a routine, the highlights of her week being the two evenings of the week that she spent at the club. But, as in reality, the fickle finger of fate had decided that Hope's life was going too well for its liking and decides to throw a spanner into her life in the form of an envelope that contains a newspaper clipping. The article is about little Jane Craven who was only six months old when she was stolen from the back seat of her mother's car and subsequently vanished, without a trace. The photo of the baby is fuzzy, getting and grainy but despite having no idea who Jane or her mother Penny are, there is something about the article that to Hope feels familiar and yet also doesnt. When she looks more closely at the photo, she spots something that sends shock waves pulsing throughout her body, something that causes her to question everything that she was told about her past and confront the shocking possibility that the photo is actually one of Hope when she was a baby. She begins a search for answers that will result in her confronting some uncomfortable truths about her past, deception and lies from people she trusts and coming into contact with some very unscrupulous individuals.
Who had sent Hope the article and what were the motives behind their actions?
I thought that Hope was a fantastic, very likeable character, I loved her sense of humour and her interactions with her loveable, elderly neighbour Mr Bonner who saw himself as her surrogate dad. Our pasts and identities are a very important part of who we are and I can't even imagine the conflicting emotions and feelings that would be caused by discovering that everything that you thought you knew about yourself could possibility be a pack of lies. I must admit that I thought Hope was rather naive in trusting the Stella character as quickly as she did but her actions could also be contributed to the events that were overshadowing her life. I also thought that Stephen was a wonderful character, I loved the interactions and banter between him and Hope. There was a scene in which the two friends were winding up some other characters that was really funny but the friend's actions backfired spectacularly for Stephen. They had a really close relationship and he appeared to be a really trustworthy individual but as all readers who love reading this genre know very well, people are not always who they appear to be. Was Stephen as trustworthy as he appeared to be or was Hope destined to be betrayed by her closest friend and confidante.
Omg, wow....just wow and wow again, I really really loved this captivating, fast paced, unputdownable page turner that had me hooked in and glued to my kindle from the first page. I would have read this addictive thriller in one sitting but my old eyes had other ideas. It's a gripping read that has a cast of realistic,diverse characters, some likeable,some not so likeable and packed full of twists and turns. I would give it many more than five stars if I could. This is Kerry Wilkinson at his very best,very very highly recommended and definitely going to be one of my favourite reads of this year.
Author Bio:
Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.
He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.
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