First published 2016
Jenna Gray watches her son slip from her grasp on a rainy afternoon. He runs into the street and dies in a car accident that destroys her world. She escapes to a crumbling cottage on the Welsh coast, but the memories follow her there. The accident replays constantly in her mind as she struggles to survive her grief and confront other painful secrets from her past. Meanwhile, two Bristol police detectives work the hit and run case. They chase leads that go nowhere and find themselves drawn to each other as much as to the mystery. The investigation twists in unexpected directions as they search for answers about what really happened that afternoon. Jenna tries to rebuild her life in isolation, but she cannot outrun what she has lost. The case pulls the detectives deeper into a web of deception. Both stories converge toward revelations that will change everything they thought they knew about that fatal day.
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Bristol, Wales
Period: contemporary
14 pages · Audiobook · Penguin Audio
Content warnings: child-death, mental-illness