Amazing book - kept me enthralled all the way through and I was looking for excuses to spend more time reading. Good character development throughout

14 years ago Angela, a popular high school student went missing after a drunken party. Her best friend, Geo (Georgina) knows exactly what happened that night but has kept quiet all these years. When Angela's remains are found in woods very close to home the truth, or at least some of it, starts to come out. The killer is Geo's former boyfriend, Calvin, who has gone on to rape and murder other young women. But Geo is not blameless and is herself facing 5 years in prison for her part her friend's demise. It is almost a relief to Geo for the events that happened so many years ago to finally be out in the open. But her prison sentence is not the end of the story by any means.

This is a pretty decent murder mystery story, told over a period of around 20 years. The book begins with the criminal trial and sentencing of Calvin and Geo in respect of Angela's murder. After that the chapters go back and forth between Geo's incarceration and eventual release from prison and flashbacks to the 16 year old friends and the lead up to Angela's death.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is a little predictable and far fetched at times but the characters are well drawn and the story is quite engrossing, full of secrets and lies and half-truths. I should probably mention that there are some rather graphic scenes of mutilation and rape in this story that some may find disturbing. A good read though.

Clever and very tense.

This novel was full of twists and turns and kept me up at night! I could not stop reading it