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An exciting well written thriller with plenty of action. This book is fast paced and well worth reading. There are so many secrets and it is not easy for Ella to find out what happened to Miranda. The plot has a lot of twists and turns and the ending surprised me.

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Took a little while to get into but then became a good, suspenseful read. Short chapters with a loving sister and little boy who need to know what happened the day Miranda disappeared. A satisfying ending that I did not see coming.

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I enjoyed this book, although I think it was easy to see 'whodunit ' but this did not detract from the overall enjoyment. Preferred this to the authors first book and it encourages me to read future offerings.

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Another five star winner from this author. Superb plot, kept me gripped from start to finish.

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How many psychopaths can you cram into one book? Lots, according to Kendal. Here we have the caught killer in a psychiatric hospital, the uncaught killer on the loose, and a madly jealous girlfriend for no good reason just to up the ante...

I'm afraid I found this overly-familiar in its plotting and also written in a kind of muddy, hyper-emotionalised style that grated: every time our heroine feels something it's described in overblown metaphors e.g. 'There is another explosion. The sky is erupting with giant dandelions in emerald and fuchsia and violet and sapphire. "Maybe." Each flower pops, then vaporises.' Purple prose, anyone?

I guess I'm wearying of yet another plucky woman taking on an investigation which the police have failed to solve, here the disappearance of her sister 10 years ago. Of course, she immediately spots clues that have eluded the police and is soon playing mind games with a killer in a secure facility a la Hannibal Lecter. With Ella's ongoing internal dialogue with her missing sister in the second person, plus her flipping backwards and forwards between memories and the present, often within the same paragraph, there's a lot of faff here which takes up space without moving the story on.

I'd heard good things about Kendal's 'You' hence my interest in reading this - but her style perhaps just isn't for me.

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