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When Rosalie was a little girl, she was lost in the wetlands behind her mother’s home. She saw a body in the marsh, but no one ever believed her. Now, her brother brings a girl whose sister disappeared 15 years ago to talk to Rosaline, because the girl, Cora, believes that Rosaline found her sister. But as Cora searches the wetlands for any proof, it becomes clearer and clearer that someone wants this case to stay buried.

This book was one of the few wetland mysteries I’ve ever read. The extra stress of human versus nature added an element that I don’t get all that often, so it was a unique read for me. I loved the mystery of what they might or might not find, simply because of the nature of the setting.

The overall vibe of the book was kind of gloomy. Rosalie not only had a stressful childhood, but now as an adult she’s going through a lot of emotional things as well. The book had a slow burn mystery vibe, but once it warmed up the pages flew (probably the last 15% or so).

In the end, I gave this book a solid 3 stars. It was an interesting mystery, but I guessed some of the major reveals pretty early on and wished there was something a little more shocking that I didn’t guess.

Thanks to One More Chapter (Harper Collins UK) and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

A slow start but the pace soon picked up. I enjoyed the descriptions of the farmhouse setting. The conclusion and the fact it turned out to be someone you wouldn't guess was great.

A very enjoyable book, I liked the slower pace and slower reveals, made it stand out from the crowd of other books like this.
My first by this author and I'm sure it wont be my last.

Great thriller that kept me engaged from start to finish. Fabulous plot and characters, and author I will definitely read more of!

This was a brilliant read and is being featured on my blog for my quick star reviews feature, which I have created on my blog so I can catch up with all the books I have read and therefore review.
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This was mostly an enjoyable read. The pacing, for me, was a bit slow but the story otherwise gripping with its twist. I am leaving this review a couple of months after reading it and have to say it is mostly forgettable.

Great for fans of carol wyer and Cara Hunter.
This storyline was so good and really had me guessing.
Love how the characters are mysterious and thinking who it could be.

This book was quite a good read and quite the page turner. I liked the characters and it was an interesting story.

My first by this author and to be honest, I doubt I will seek her out again. LITTLE GIRLS TELL TALES had a promising premise but it was so slow moving that it failed in the delivery.

2004: Ten year old Rosalie is walking with her brother Dallin and friend Beth when she becomes lost in the wetlands behind her mother's home on the isolated Isle of Man and stumbles across the skeletal remains of a body. But having strayed from the path and lost her way, it's hours before she is found. Shaken and exhausted, Rosalie tells authorities about the remains but when searchers scoured the marsh, there was no skeleton to be found. Additionally, with her penchant for "telling stories" many do not believe Rosalie's claims about the body in the curraghs.

2019: Fifteen years later, Rosalie now lives in the house that was her mother's, grieving the loss of her partner Beth when her estranged brother Dallin arrives unannounced with a woman named Cora. If she is shocked to find her brother on her doorstep, she's even more so when she discovers that Cora believes the remains that Rosalie found all those years ago were those of her sister Simone who has been missing for 20 years. After all these years, Rosalie can't believe that someone actually believes her story...as they hadn't back then.

Soon Rosalie becomes embroiled in the mystery and Cora's plan to locate the body to confirm it is Simone...but when disturbing things begin happening to Cora, it seems someone doesn't want them to uncover the truth. But will they unravel the truth and find Simon'e remains before it's too late?

The book started off in 2004 when Rosalie was a child and you were immediately drawn in when she becomes lost and comes across the remains. But unfortunately, the following chapters that then move into the present day become slow and largely uneventful for the most part that I didn't much care what happened or if they managed to find the remains again. Throughout the long-winded tale, the reader is then made to guess what happened to Simone as if this were the penultimate climax to the mystery. But in the end, I didn't care what had happened to her or why...despite skimming the rest of it to the end.

Sadly, LITTLE GIRLS TELL TALES was just too slow that I didn't enjoy at all. And I can't say that I would recommend it at all.

I would like to thank #RachelBennett, #NetGalley and #OneMoreChapter for an ARC of #LittleGirlsTellTales in exchange for an honest review.

It was interesting to read a book set on the Isle of Man and I loved the descriptions of the land and new landscapes.
The idea for the book was good too, interesting dynamic of a body lost in the bog and no one knows who or where it is.
But sadly the execution was rather dull, the search was very slow and the 'reveal' of the secrets quite unexciting. The killer and motive were rather humdrum and I just didn't care enough about anyone involved by the very abrupt end. Sorry.

I very much enjoyed this book. It has a good story and excellent main characters. I would definately recommend this book.

Fifteen years ago Rosalie stumbled over a body. Having lost track of her brother, Dallin, it's hours before she is found. Rosalie has a history of telling stories, so on one believes her story of the body in the pond.

Her brother has been estranged from the family so it's a surprise when he shows up out of nowhere and in the company of a woman named Cora. Cora's sister went missing fifteen years ago and she thinks Rosalie was telling the truth .. and the body was that of her sister.

As dangerous secrets are unearthed, Cora and Rosalie start asking questions about a girl who some would rather keep buried…

Well-written with a steady pace throughout. The characters are deftly drawn amid the swirling mystery of the Isle of Man. There were some twists and turns that kept the suspense in high gear, leading to an unexpected conclusion.

Many thanks to the author / Harper Collins UK / One More Chapter / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

The novel is set on the Isle of Man, the home of the Manx cat famous for their shortened tail, bogs, rain and Celtic legends. Did young Rosalie really find a skeleton all those years ago and could it be Cora’s sister Simone who disappeared. Told in the past and the present, Cora’s appearance makes the search for the truth take different paths in this nuance but rather slower than typical suspense/thrillers. Enjoyable read during quarantine.

This book gave me serious Wendy Walker vibes. I really enjoyed it - it has more of a creepy/ghostly feel than most thrillers. I'll be recommending to my friends!

I don’t think I’ve read any mysteries set on the Isle of Man before, and it’s one of those places I’ve yet to visit, so everything about the location for this story was new to me. Quite a few of the themes and character tropes were familiar, of course – isolated communities tend to attract similar eccentrics and have common issues for all those living there. One twist on the usual plots for these types of books was that neither of the siblings at the centre of the story was entirely a local or entirely an outsider. Dallin grew up in the village, but moved away as an adult, whereas Rosalie visited her mother and brother as a child, but only settled in her mother’s former home as an adult, following her marriage to Dallin’s childhood best friend, and after life-changing injuries left Rosalie and Dallin’s mother unable to continue living in the house herself.

Now widowed, Rosalie continues to live in her marital home, but rarely ventures out due to a combination of grief and anxiety, the latter compounded by her reputation as the girl who’d claimed to have found a skeleton while lost on the desolate curraghs – wetlands – close to her house fifteen years earlier. No one else has ever found the body, and Rosalie’s tale is mostly dismissed as a story she made up to atone for so many people having turned out to search for her. Even her brother seems sceptical, and yet when he returns to visit, with a new friend in tow, it turns out that he’s been telling Cora all about Rosalie and the skeleton.

Cora, it transpires, has her own reasons for wanting the skeleton to be real, and to be uncovered once again. Her older sister disappeared twenty years ago, and she has come to believe that the skeleton might be her. Cora has a plan, and having already convinced Dallin to help her, she now needs Rosalie’s assistance as well. Together the three begin to search the curraghs, in spite of opposition from some of Rosalie’s neighbours, and soon it becomes clear that at least one person on the island will do everything they can to sabotage Cora’s hunt.

I liked the atmosphere of this book and enjoyed the quirky background characters, especially the history various of them had with Rosalie and Dallin. I found Cora and Rosalie a little difficult to warm to, and Dallin was particularly annoying – although that was almost certainly deliberate on the author’s part. I would have liked a little more resolution of some of the family tensions, especially those relating to Rosalie’s deceased wife, but overall this was a good introduction to a setting and an author that I’d like to read more of.

Published May 2020.

This is a book I downloaded from NetGalley.

As a young girl, Rosalie was wandering through the curraghs and stumbled upon some bones ... what she thought was a body. Because she had been away from home too long, her mom panicked and had a lot of folks out looking for her. When Rosalie was found, no one believed her story ... but no one apparently forgot either. In her early twenties, after not seeing her brother (Dillon) for five or six years, he returned home with a new friend, Cora ... someone he met through an online forum ... the same forum where he published Rosalie's story (unbeknownst to her). Cora was looking for her missing sister, Sabine, long since missing with no clues as to her whereabouts. Did Rosalie find Sabine all those many years ago? Some odd things occurred while Cora and Dillon were camping near the curraghs. Was someone trying to cover something up and scare them off from their search?

While Ms. Bennett's writing style is different for me, she weaves an interesting tale with some underlying family conflict, Rosalie learning to be okay without her wife (Beth), and perhaps a hint of romance between Rosalie and Cora.

Thank you to Netgalley, HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter and Rachel Bennett for this e-copy in return for my honest review. This story is well-written and kept me both engaged and engrossed throughout. Fast paced and twisty, sure to be a big hit!

A decades long mystery that is solved through a combination of dogged determination, luck and someone getting impatient.
When our main character, Rosalie, is ten she gets lost while out for a walk. She wanders the deserted curraghs on the island for hours, and while walking discovers a skeleton. When she is eventually discovered she tells everyone what happened, but no evidence is found of this body. Twenty years on it’s still an event that bothers her.
Nobody else has thought about this for a long time, but then her brother publishes the story online and is contacted by a young woman named Cora. She tells a story of her sister, Simone, going missing and she wants to search the area to see if there is any truth to this tale.
What follows is a mix of family drama and general mystery. We learn more about the various characters involved and draw closer to the secrets held in the area. Eventually we get answers, though they’re not necessarily the answers we were expecting.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this in advance of publication.

Lots of twist and turns with some unexpected. Well described characters which moved the story along at a fast pace. Upbeat conclusion and a compelling read.