by Erin Kinsley
SYNOPSIS
SOMEONE KILLED YOUR DAUGHTER.
SOMEONE YOU KNOW...
Your daughter isn't answering your calls.
She's not replying to your messages.
You rush to her house.
She's slumped in the basement, dying and alone.
You desperately call for help.
She whispers a single word: 'pushed'.
Someone is keeping secrets.
And it must be someone you know...
REVIEW
After a few days of being ignored by her daughter, Dee decides that enough is enough and heads over to her house to find out what's going on. After letting herself in, she finds the house empty but just as she is about to leave she hears a noise coming from the basement. She heads down the steps to find her daughter Natalie having had a horrific fall and desperately calls for help. What at first seems like a terrible accident soon develops into something much more sinister. Natalie manages to whisper to the paramedics that she was pushed, causing a massive hunt for the truth from the police, her family and friends and also the local press - but will they discover that the person they are looking for is actually somebody close to home?
What was so brilliant about Someone You Know was the way it portrayed the impact of a death and/or a murder, on the victim's family and the wider community. This began with their brutally honest account of the relationship Dee and Frank had with Natalie. A lot of the time when you read a murder mystery, the victims are given glowing obituaries, nobody wants to say a bad word about them - but not in this case. Both of her parents are willing to talk about the difficulties they all had, how the relationship between the three of them was not always easy, how Natalie and her behaviour could even have been the cause of her death, even if this put them at risk of being viewed as suspects in the police investigation. For me this gave an extra layer of reality to the story, these characters felt like real people, dealing with real problems and their grief was extremely raw and heartfelt. The scrutiny each of the suspects were subjected to was very thorough as the investigation continued, it really showed the importance of getting correct evidence and witness statements and how devastating the consequences can be if any errors are made.
This book had all of the elements I love in a thriller - a murder investigation, old secrets coming to light, a dedicated reporter desperate to solve the mystery, multiple suspects and avenues to explore and twists and turns throughout. Not a happy read, but a deliciously dark and emotional thriller.
Thanks to Random Things Tours - @RandomTTours, Erin Kinsley @KinsleyErin and Headline Books - @HeadlinePG for the opportunity to read and review.
Publisher: Headline Genre: Thriller / Crime / Psychological Thriller
ISBN: 978-1472292513
Pages: 432pp
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