Then She Vanishes
Claire Douglas (Penguin)
One quiet March morning, the peaceful seaside town of Tilby near Bristol is ripped apart by the double murder of a seemingly harmless man and his elderly mother, followed by the attempted suicide of the shooter. But things aren’t always what they seem to be. Disgraced journalist Jessica Fox relocates to Bristol where she spent her youth, after being involved in phone hacking at a London daily. Nobody but a bi-weekly local rag would employ her. But because of her history with the shooter, she becomes embroiled in the case rather closer than she might wish. Is an exclusive worth dying for? This one is full of plot twists and turns and moments, where whatever the reader believes is proved totally wrong. A real rollercoaster of a thriller which I found genuinely hard to put down.
Price: £7.99. Info: www.penguin.co.uk
Words: Mark Timlin