A psychological thriller in which the body of a 16 year-old girl, missing for 25 years is found buried in the garden of a country house. When it is established she had been murdered, her sister-in-law begins her own investigation.

Read some time ago and can't really remember much about it!

RELEASE NOTES:

To released at the Sheffield BXers meet.

Picked up at the Sheffield Meet

This was the first Nicci French book I've read, and for a first novel by the author (although I understand the author is actually a couple writing together) it is very assured.

The characters are described with great clarity and the plot is clever with several deft twists. The quality of writing is excellent, without falling back on cliches and commonplaces, with some good descriptive passages.

The characters are three-dimensional but very much of a certain breed of bohemian middle class media luvvie strain. Which made some of them rather irritating, but at least Jane, the narrator, was warm, sympathetic and human.

Her remembrances - or lack of them - of the night of disappearance of the girl whose body was dug up become almost an obsession, and much of the middle of the book is taken up with the sessions with her psychiatrist where he tries to help her remember.

In fact, the issue of recovered memory is very interesting, and very timely, as the issue crops up again and again as abuse allegations surface in real life. It is handled intelligently, and fairly impartially.

The final twist was unexpected, but it did answer me one question - and left me with another, but shouldn't psychological thrillers do that? :o)

RELEASE NOTES:

Come at join us at the Sheffield Meet from 11am onwards!

Picked up at the sheffield meet.

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