Author: Kerry Wilkinson
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Bookouture
Publication Date: 31st March 2020
Rating: 5 Stars
Under a cloudless Mediterranean sky, two families wheel their suitcases past swaying palm trees towards their hotel to grab a spot by the pool. But behind the smiles, someone is hiding a terrible secret…
I never wanted to come on this trip. I thought the accident had torn us apart forever, but then my mother called out of the blue, wanting to make amends. So here we are, two families on a beautiful island, sipping sangria like nothing ever happened.
My parents’ oldest friend, Daniel, was invited too – I’ve never trusted him, and now he brings up my past mistake every chance he gets. And why does his son, Victor, keep disappearing off on his own?
Even my brother’s here, with his twins. It’s amazing to see my nieces playing happily in the pool. After what happened at home, it still hurts me to be around the girls, but more so that my brother doesn’t trust me alone with them.
Despite everything, it’s going surprisingly well – everyone forcing a smile at the dinner table, laughing at the twins’ antics – until the night my father is attacked on the beach, left for dead on the sand.
As always, all fingers point to me, but this time I know for certain that I’m innocent. And if I’m not guilty, someone else on this holiday is…
A unique and totally gripping psychological thriller that will have fans of T.M. Logan and The Girl on the Train racing through the pages late into the night.
I never wanted to come on this trip. I thought the accident had torn us apart forever, but then my mother called out of the blue, wanting to make amends. So here we are, two families on a beautiful island, sipping sangria like nothing ever happened.
My parents’ oldest friend, Daniel, was invited too – I’ve never trusted him, and now he brings up my past mistake every chance he gets. And why does his son, Victor, keep disappearing off on his own?
Even my brother’s here, with his twins. It’s amazing to see my nieces playing happily in the pool. After what happened at home, it still hurts me to be around the girls, but more so that my brother doesn’t trust me alone with them.
Despite everything, it’s going surprisingly well – everyone forcing a smile at the dinner table, laughing at the twins’ antics – until the night my father is attacked on the beach, left for dead on the sand.
As always, all fingers point to me, but this time I know for certain that I’m innocent. And if I’m not guilty, someone else on this holiday is…
A unique and totally gripping psychological thriller that will have fans of T.M. Logan and The Girl on the Train racing through the pages late into the night.
I honestly can't tell you if I have just read a true crime novel, a set of transcripts from a documentary, or if everything is completely fictional from the mind of a mastermind author.
However you wish to describe this book it is a wonderful experience, had me second guessing every word, had me googling to find out if the Greek island featured was even real.
Everything was incredibly convincing, so I'm still not sure whose accounts were the truth.
I know which character I want to believe, and its the one I really got inside the head of. But whether she is delusional or not I'm not completely sure.
It is though that got under my skin from the start and I found myself thinking about when I wasn't reading.
It was largely in style and content unlike anything I've read before, and I do love originality in a story.
I would dearly love to know the truth of what happened during those seven days in July but somehow I'm not even sure the author knows.
It's the first book I've read by Kerry Wilkinson for a long while and now I'm wondering why that is. Definitely need to read more in future and not just when the cover piques my interest.
100% worth reading this, its fabulous.
Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
However you wish to describe this book it is a wonderful experience, had me second guessing every word, had me googling to find out if the Greek island featured was even real.
Everything was incredibly convincing, so I'm still not sure whose accounts were the truth.
I know which character I want to believe, and its the one I really got inside the head of. But whether she is delusional or not I'm not completely sure.
It is though that got under my skin from the start and I found myself thinking about when I wasn't reading.
It was largely in style and content unlike anything I've read before, and I do love originality in a story.
I would dearly love to know the truth of what happened during those seven days in July but somehow I'm not even sure the author knows.
It's the first book I've read by Kerry Wilkinson for a long while and now I'm wondering why that is. Definitely need to read more in future and not just when the cover piques my interest.
100% worth reading this, its fabulous.
Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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