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Wow another brilliant book had to complete in one sitting. Twists and turns a real page turner. Cant wait to read your next book

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A good read.
Paige, Richard and me. We thought we’d be friends forever. But everything changed the day we took the short cut home from school along the old railway line. I wish we’d gone the long way. I wish we hadn’t seen our classmate, pale and still in the undergrowth. And I wish we hadn’t promised to keep one, awful detail a secret just between us…
Twenty years later, I have a brand-new life, and try never to think about my old one.
But I’m dragged back when Paige calls out of the blue. Richard has been accused of something terrible. Everyone back home is whispering about the body we found years ago, and saying Richard deserves to be locked up…
I just adored it. Although it was long.
I'm doing more promotion on its release date among my fellow Authors Bloggers Family Friends and followers.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an advanced copy.

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I started this on a Saturday morning and I’d finished it by early evening. Within the first few pages you are invested in the characters and the plot. Harry whose own life is at a bit of a crossroads, answers a call from his childhood friend Paige, and next thing he’s on a flight back from Canada to the town he grew up in. One friend has been arrested on a murder charge, another is drug dependent, and his only close family is less than welcoming. Beautifully observed his struggle with returning from being away, that feeling you no longer fit in in either place, and where everything, yet nothing has changed. The plot unfolds and you can feel the claustrophobia of his being back, his remembering a horrific occurrence in his school days and the reverberations it still has on the community. “People change. Then they change again”
Another great read from this author whose work I love

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I spent all of the Friday reading this thriller. It’s a winner. The plot kept me on the edge of my seat until the last page and the characters were mesmerizing. I highly recommend this one.

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“ People change and then they change again” .Harry has flown back from Canada as one of his school friends Richard, has been arrested for murder. He meets up with the third member of their group as was,Paige, not really sure what he can do other than be there for support. He and Richard went to school eighteen years ago and found another child under a bush on their way home. Social media being what it is has put the two together although the police don’t yet have anything to link the two murders. Paige is now the estranged sister in law of Richard having been married but now separated from his brother Oliver. Richard and Paige try to find out anything they can to clear their friends' names. Harry suspects that Paige is an addict and is hiding more than a few small baggies. Can they clear Richard before it's too late and who is the real perpetrator of both murders and why? I enjoyed this. It's a tale of old friendships, and trying to reconnect with people we had so much in common with at one time and now they are practically strangers. Harry comes across well as someone you could trust and rely on- something he can't say the same about as Paige sadly. A cleverly crafted, well thought out plot and believable characters which comes across very well. A highly recommended read.
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