He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes.
Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside.
When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it's an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide.
But the residents of Widringham women's refuge where Katie worked don't agree. They say its murder.
Will you listen to them?
An addictive literary page-turner about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace, Keeper will leave you reeling long after the final page is turned.
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(@VikingBooks, 19 March 2020, 400 pages, ebook, copy from @VikingBooks via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I really enjoyed this book. I liked the way the book is structured, starting in the past when Katie meets the man will devastate her life then moves forward to the moment her body is found and weaves back and forth between the two time periods to tell Katie's familiar but tragic story. I like non-linear narratives. I've read a lot of books about domestic violence and abuse. I'm not sure why, it's a subject I return to in fiction again and again. Keeper is very familiar and Katie's story and the stories of the women in the refuge are not exactly original but they are told with great empathy and sympathy. I didn't find myself reeling exactly but I enjoyed the experience of reading the book. I found the truth about Katie very sad but exactly what I was expecting.
