3.5 stars.

Told in two timelines (almost, it was mostly set in the 70's), this story tells the tale of how Elizabeth met Rachel and developed a weird teen-girl crush on her. There are secrets and murder hidden in these pages, but the build up is slow and the story spends so much time on the breakdown of family and relationships. The last little bit of the book is fast paced and excellent, but it was a bit of hard work to get there.

I really wanted to like this book! But unfortunately, I did not connect with the characters and i found it very slow. Nothing really interesting happens in the first half part of the book.

Our Dark Secret is told in two timelines from the perspective of Elizabeth, a girl with weight issues who seems to be obsessed with another girl called Rachel. When they are kids, the body of a woman is found near the orchard where Elizabeth likes to spends her time. Fast-forward a decade, and another body is found at a near-by location, but the identity of the victim is unclear. The only thing that is clear to the reader is that Elizabeth knows who the victim is and she is afraid of the death being traced back to her.

* Thanks to Pan Macmillan Australia for providing me advanced access to the arc via NetGalley.