Lewis has done a great job with the writing and I thought the plot was very cleverly done with plot twists that kept you guessing to the very end.
Yes, the start was a little slow with the pace only really picking up after themark, But, after this point the storyline really gets interesting and gripping, and my predictions of the whodunnit was so wrong,
One of my major struggles was with keeping up with the characters, I didnt have a problem with the characters themselves but the amount of them, There were so many characters that I struggled to keep up with the names of them all and it started to get really confusing as to who was who and who was in a relationship with each other, especially when the storyline jumped between past and present times.
At times I ended up rereading sections, which slowed me down in getting to the end to find who the perpetrator actually was.
Saying that overall I thought characters were really well done, They were all very individual in their own way and full of depth, Most of them are believable and likeable, although at times they were a little annoying,
After the initial slow start this turned out to be a really good read and is worth sticking with, I think that this book would make a great TV series, One that I would be happy to watch, This is a great book for anyone looking for a family based psychological thriller,
I would like to thank Rachel Quin at HarperFiction for getting in touch and inviting me to read this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
It took a very long time for the story to go anywhere and there was a complete lack of suspense, There were too many characters and the main ones lacked any depth or warmth, Not for me Twisted, intriguing and a page turner story, thats how I would sum up this book,
Theres no such thing as a perfect marriage because you can never know what happens behind closed doors or in ones past.
What might sound or look perfect for one person, it could totally trigger something else in another,
This book was really interesting and great, I loved how the author combines the happy family facade with a not so great past and how the perception of whats to show and act in front of others is so damaging inside.
Facing a murder trial from a reopening of a cold case , twenty years later, this story kept me on the edge throughout the pages and I really wanted to know if he was the culprit or not.
I had my doubts of what actually happened then but I havent seen that ending coming my way at all!
A great twist to end a great story.
A loving marriage
Golden couple Annie and David Crayce have it all, A perfect marriage, three beautiful children and
a thriving family business, Life couldnt be better. Until the unthinkable happens
A longburied crime
Suddenly, David is the prime suspect of a murder committed twenty years ago.
As the police investigate the cold case, so does Annie, But it all comes down to a few lost hours she cant solve,
Now Annie must prove the man she loves is innocent,
The clock is tickingstars
Read the firstand the lastchapters and you're good, Absolutely nothing happens in this book, What you read in the synopsis you find out in the firstchapters and then for the rest of the book everyone is asking themselves and all around who could be the guilty party.
And in the end you find out, by no big revelation or whatever,
Long, boring, repetitive, Absolutely riveting!
Author Susan Lewis, is adept at taking a normal, everyday family, and placing them in EXTRAordinary situations, and in the case of Annie and David Crayce, and their extended family, its an absolute nightmare!
The unsolved murder of teenager, Karen Lomax, some twenty years earlier, has been all but forgotten, except for her devastated parents and friends, but when the police turn up at the Crayces door claiming to have found Davids DNA, linking him to Karens murder, secrets, suspicions and accusations are raised at three members of the extended family.
The new evidence came about, after Annie and Davids daughter, Sienna, had a minor brush with the law resulting in her DNA being routinely run through police computer systems, linking it to the unsolved murder.
And so, the nightmare begins!
OMG, what devastation for the whole family, it certainly keeps the reader hooked, trying to work out whodunnit.
This is a well respected though not always likeable family, and because we get to know them all intimately, its impossible to decide who the guilty party actually is.
I certainly couldnt decide! Dont miss this one!
I was invited to read The Lost Hours by the publisher and have given an honest unbiased review in exchange Annie and David appear to have the perfect life, bringing up their three children and running their family business.
Sienna their sixteen year old daughter is arrested after her friends stole a teddy bear, The police take her DNA and she hopes that is as far as it goes as no further charges are made,
Twenty years ago teenager Karen Lomax had gone missing, and her body was discovered in a railway hut, The police have used Siennas DNA as it is familiar to the DNA left on Karens body, meaning it could have come from any male in her family.
The family are horrified when David is arrested for the murder of Karen, Does Annie really know her husband The perfect family starts to crumble as everyone looks at all the males with suspicion, Are they covering up what David did Why are they so secretive about the night Karen died
This was such a gripping read.
I love how Susan Lewis drops a family into their worst nightmares as we casually sit back and observe what secrets and how far they will go to protect their family.
I was completely hooked as I tried to work out who had murdered Karen,
A must read book!!
Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review,
Was a good read with a few twists along the way would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for this amazing book
a childish prank results in an arrest of a teenager
a familiar dna match occurs on an old cold case fromyears ago
men from the same family are suspects
its not going to end well
oh my word right from the first page i couldnt put this book down.
. . so many red herrings but this author can spin a brilliant book
cant wait for the next one from this author who is fast becoming a favourite This book was full of great twists and turns, which youre always guaranteed with a Susan Lewis novel.
Great family drama with old skeletons resurfacing and causing havoc! I have read a lot of books by Susan Lewis but this is the first for a while.
I need to find more! This was brilliant, had me hooked from the start and I didn't manage to work it out so the ending was a surprise.
If you like a crime, mystery book then this is a great read,
A loving marriage
Golden couple Annie and David Crayce have it all, A perfect marriage, three beautiful children and a thriving family business, Life couldnt be better. Until the unthinkable happens
A longburied crime
Suddenly, David is the prime suspect of a murder committed twenty years ago.
As the police investigate the cold case, so does Annie, But it all comes down to a few lost hours she cant solve,
Now Annie must prove the man she loves is innocent,
The clock is ticking My first read of this author, . and I loved this cover, I must say, The story I found got a lot better as we progressed, The beginning I thought dragged a little too much and it took a good while to get to the actual story itself, I personally could've done without the excess of firearms' knowledge, We only needed to know the bare bones, really,
There are a lot of characters but I liked that we got to know each and every one quite well, This is mainly why I prefer longer novels, you get more information about the people featured, It was nice the whole family mucked in with the business, all generations, The dog was never left out of anything, either, and was properly treated as one of the family, and that'll always been a winner for me.
I would've liked to know more about Natalie and her backstory but perhaps she'll get her own tale one of these days, I did make a note that Julia seemed a bit of a flake to me as well, . and I wasn't a fan of Chrissie,
I found it odd she capitalises Travellers, the same way authors have all of a sudden started to do when writing Black as well.
Not sure if it's a new PC thing but it always distracts me, I also didn't like her use of American spelling the whole way through, There were a few apostrophe mistakes, though she got it right many times, so a proofreader ought to have corrected this, She wrote affect not effect and I've no idea what "to the refs" means and Google was no help there, there were words dropped from sentences, another ebook staple, like over/the/a, quite a lot of missed commas and I found this an odd expression, "She sat into a chair.
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The ending was bittersweet but I still liked it and I will read another by her for sure, .