by Mark Edwards
Part of The Magpies
First published 2019
A year ago, Jamie Knight made a terrible mistake. He walked straight into Lucy Newton's trap, and both he and his ex-wife Kirsty barely got out alive. Now Lucy has vanished, and the police investigation is stalling. Jamie is done waiting. He teams up with a true crime podcaster and sets out to find Lucy himself. The problem is he needs Kirsty. She knows Lucy. She survived Lucy. But Jamie hurt Kirsty badly before any of this started, and she has not forgotten. He has to ask her to put herself back in danger for a man she has every reason to turn away. Meanwhile, Lucy's own secret memoir surfaces, and her words pull the reader into her head in ways that are deeply unsettling. The trilogy that began with The Magpies ends here, in a final confrontation where not everyone makes it out. The question driving every page is simple and brutal: who survives this time?
Genres: mystery, crime, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: dark, gripping, intense, psychological, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-secrets, enemies-to-allies, multiple-perspectives, unreliable-narrator
Period: contemporary
121 pages · Kindle Edition · Amazon Publishing
Content warnings: abuse, violence