KEEPING THIS SECRET WAS KILLING HER...
A gripping psychological thriller about the deadly secrets your children can keep ...
Sue Jackson has the perfect family but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a very dark reality.
Retracing her daughter's steps she finds a horrifying entry in Charlotte's diary and is forced to head deep into Charlotte's private world. In her hunt for evidence, Sue begins to mistrust everyone close to her daughter and she's forced to look further, into the depths of her own past.
Sue will do anything to protect her daughter. But what if she is the reason that Charlotte is in danger?
Fast-paced, suspenseful, this is a book with more twists than a helter-skelter. Perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN.
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Coma. There's something innocuous about the word, soothing almost in the way it conjures up the image of a dreamless sleep. CHAPTER 1, 22 APRIL 2012
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(@AvonBooksUK, 10 April 2014, 417 pages, e-book, borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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Taylor has become one of my favourite thriller writers of recent years so I was really looking forward to reading this. This has all the trademarks I've come to expect from Taylor's books; twists, turns, misdirection and unreliable narration. The chapters weave back and forth between the present with Sue desperately trying to find out if her daughter tried to kill herself, what the big secret hinted at in her diary really is while trying to convince her husband and the police she isn't mad and someone if after her and her family. There are also flashbacks which shows Sue's last relationships with a mentally and abusive monster called James, a man she believes is trying to harm her and her family now. But she can prove it?
