Emily Latimer is furious. Her boss Andrew is being so unreasonable, as always. She fires off a text to her boyfriend, only in her haste she sends it to her whole office group.
In it she says Andrew's being difficult about letting her have time off work. That she is angry. That she hopes he dies. The next day her face burns in the office. No one believes her when she says it was a typo, she meant to say does. She hopes he does.
It's a nightmare. But it gets worse - Andrew doesn't turn up for work. And then the police come knocking. Because Andrew Burton has been murdered . . .
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I sent the text without thinking.
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(Penguin, 31 August 2017, e-book, 32 pages, bought from AmazonKindle)
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I'm a fan of the author so The Text intrigued me. I liked this story a lot. The opening pages when Emily realises she sent her angry text to the wrong people made me laugh. Who hasn't done that? I found this instantly relatable. There's a lot of suspense in the story as Emily wonders who killed Andrew, begs the police to believe she isn't the killer and accepts some hard truths about her friend Yas and her boyfriend.