A gruesome discovery unravels a dark trail of murder and madness.
A six-year-old girl sneaks out of bed to capture a mermaid but instead discovers a dead body. Terrified and unable to make sense of what she sees, she locks the vision deep inside her mind.
Ten years later, Lily is introduced to the charismatic Flo and they become best friends. But Lily is guilt-ridden - she is hiding a terrible secret which has the power to destroy both their lives.
When Flo's father is accused of killing a schoolgirl, the horrors of Lily's past come bubbling to the surface. Lily knows that, whatever the consequences, she has to make things right. She must go back to the events of her childhood and face what happened at the boat house all those years ago.
Can Lily and Flo discover what is hiding in the murky waters of the lake before the killer strikes again?
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Death smells of macaroons. CHAPTER ONE - LILY
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(Darkstroke Books, 21 July 2020, 263 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 30 July via @RandomTTours)
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This is the author's debut so I had no idea what to expect. The blurb made me want to read the book and I've heard a lot of good things about the book. I loved the way the book I structured, using multiple narrators, two of which are a psychopathic murderer and a girl who has been mute since she found a dead body when she was just a child. She is mute by choice not because she was physically damaged in any way. The other narrator is her friend, Flo. I loved the way the chapters bounce between the different narrators without losing a story thread or sense of time or place. I love books that use multiple narrators. I didn't want to stop reading once I'd started. There's so much to enjoy; multiple POV narrators, suspense and mayhem. This is an impressive debut and I look forward to seeing what the author has in store next.
