SHE LIES IN WAIT
Gytha Lodge (Michael Joseph)
Six teenage friends go out camping during a heatwave in July 1983, with Aurora, the younger sister of one, tagging along. All the male eyes are on her, yet only the six friends go home; of Aurora, there is no sign the next morning. Police flood the area, but she is never found. Thirty years later, a body is discovered, and Detective Sheen knows exactly who it is – he was a lowly constable back in the 80s, helping in the original search. The six friends are questioned. All lie, but Sheen knows there was a deadly side to the supposedly innocent party, pushing hard for the truth. The plot is ingenious, a real old-fashioned whodunit, with red herrings all over the place, as the suspects twist and turn under Sheen’s interrogation, before the dark truth is revealed.
works Mark Timlin
Price: £12.99 Info: www.penguin.co.uk