My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Content: Strong language, One moderately descriptive sex scene
As a young child, Eleanor Blackwood witnessed her mother's murder in woods near their farm. The killer was never found.
Now
an adult, Eleanor discovers a woman's body in the same spot in the
Cornish woods where her mother was strangled eighteen years before. But
when the police get there, the body has disappeared.
Is
Eleanor’s disturbed mind playing tricks on her again, or has her
mother’s killer resurfaced? And what does the number on the dead woman’s
forehead signify?
I listened the audio of this and I wasn't crazy about the narrator. Overall this was just ok. Nothing surprised me and the main character annoyed me. She did some stupid things. She was also always thinking about how attractive the men she was acquainted with were. She was suspicious of one man but still slept with him, which didn't make any sense to me. Nothing in the book really surprised me at all. The person I suspected the most ended up being the present day killer, and I had also thought about the possibility of the other person being her mother's killer.
I've noticed there are a few things most of the psychological suspense thrillers I've read by UK authors have in common. The police are inept at their jobs and dismissive, the parents of the main characters are downright mean and unsupportive, and lots of smoking that's portrayed as though it's sexy instead of a health hazard. This one was the same. I'm not sure if this is a trend or just a coincidence, but I'm a bit tired of it. I think I'm going to stick to authors in this genre that I know I like for a while.
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