Published by
Sphere, 11 October, 2012.
ISBN: 978-0-7515-4251-6
The story opens with Anya, gleeful that she is
in Mexico in a warm climate
with a good looking guy escaping January in the UK where her sister Kate, married
with a baby, will be shivering in the winter cold.
A late
night telephone call to Kate informs her that her younger sister Anya has been
missing for two days. She was last seen with a diving instructor in a
relatively isolated region of Mexico. Police have recovered her clothes and
personal belongings, and they are now sending divers down to the caves. Kate goes into melt down, and I mean melt
down, she screams kidnapping, abduction, and proceeds to alert everyone she can
think of. The Foreign office act as
intermediary, but still Kate goes off at a tangent, unwittingly putting her
sister in further danger.
The story
is related from two first person’s point of view, that of Kate and Anya. As the story unfolds we learn of a family
tragedy that could go some way to explaining Kate’s totally over the top
reaction to the fact that her sister is missing. Her parents now separated, her
husband suggesting caution until we have more facts, Kate refuses to listen to
anyone. She wants action.
Whilst part
of the narrative is by Anya, we do not know what has happened to her, she is
clearly in trouble, scared and alone, but where or why we don’t know. The author cleverly racks up the tension as
we become aware that wherever, Anya is, time is running out.
A psychological
suspense, that only begins to make sense
as Anya alone and frightened relives a period she has tried to put behind her.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
Earlier
books are, His Other Lover, What my Best
Friend Did, The One that Got Away.
Lucy Dawson has
been a journalist and magazine editor. She lives in Dorset.
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