An excellent book with great narration. A gruelling story line involving the discovery of a young girl who refuses to give her name or answer any questions. As her story gradually unfolded I was caught up in the sheer horror of her life and I really wanted a happy ending for her. An incredible plot line with believable characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven is working with Evie Cormac, a woman who was found in a hidden room in the same building where a double murder took place six years ago. Evie, as she’s known, has never been able to reveal her real name or where she came from. Now Cyrus is working with Evie to try to help her recall her past, even though she has warned him not too. Other people who have tried to help her have ended up dead. Robotham is the gold standard in British crime fiction and Jameson’s delightful down to earth narrative brings this story to life

Having read the first book in this series Good Girl, Bad Girl last year and thoroughly enjoying it. I was pleased to get this one, but decided to go for the audio version, I am really glad I did, I sat all day yesterday listening to it whilst stitching. The narrator does a really good job, changing the voices to each character, ramping up the tension when it needed it, at times I found myself holding my breath for Evie. Feeling for her as she told her story, the horrors she was put through.

Evie is now almost 18, at the end of book one lots of questions were left unanswered. Throughout this book we get the answers. Who is Evie Cormac really? Why was no one ever looking for her? When she had been found hiding in a cupboard by a special constable Sasha: having been raped and tortured a nurse had called her “Angel face”. But the police had been unable to find any family, and she wouldn’t tell them what her real name was.

Evie trusted no one. When she did they always left her. So she had learnt, she wouldn’t let anyone get close to her, to touch her. She puts on a hard shell. Told through the points of view of Evie and Cyrus in short sharp chapters, the tension builds.

A retired police officer is found dead in what is supposed to look like suicide, but Cyrus determines it’s not, it’s murder. When going to the officers home they look at what he had been working on. A Paedophile case that he had actually solved and the perpetrator was in jail. But the paedophile was now dead. The officer was looking to see if he had put the wrong person away, or did he have an accomplice? Children are still missing connected with the case. When Cyrus is looking through things he spots the name “Angel Face”. But she had been given a new identity and only a couple of people knew what it was and where she was. Cyrus knows who and where she is.

Cyrus is still dealing with the loss of his family at the hands of his schizophrenic brother. When he tracks down Sasha they start their own investigation as they realise someone is trying to find Evie, someone with cold blue eyes and a scar on his face, he has already posed as a police officer once. Cyrus tells Evie she is safe where she is, but is she? Evie doesn’t think so but no one us listening to her.

Through flashbacks in time Evie tells her story, about the “uncle” who keeps her, uses her, sends her to other men, of course he’s not really her uncle. Then there’s Terry who was found murdered in the house where Evie had been found hiding. Was he good or bad? As the story unravels can Cyrus and Sasha stop these people from getting Evie? Can they protect themselves? The people involved are more powerful than anyone had realised.

This story deals with a difficult subject of paedophile rings, trafficking, sexual abuse, so may not be to everyone’s taste. But it is a well written and plotted story. With relatable, believable characters. I look forward to the third book in this series, hoping to see more of Evie.

I would like to thank #netgalley and #HachetteAudio for a copy of the audio version of the book in exchange for an honest, fair and unbiased review.