I really enjoyed this book - I thought the storyline going forward and backwards in time was cleverly written and worked really well.

One of the smaller twists I worked out quite early on - but the major twist, I had no idea!!

There were times when I felt the main character was a bit whiny and I couldn't work out whether I liked her at first, but I grew to like her by the end. Everything pulled together and made sense by the end.

I would definitely recommend this book!

I’ve read other books by the author and have really enjoyed them, so I’ve been looking forward to reading this. The premise sounded like something I’d really enjoy. The book moves between the past and present. This is my favourite structure for a novel, and it works really well here to build suspense and intrigue and show how events are linked. There are also plenty of twists and turns which delighted me. I was confused, suspected everyone and had no idea what the truth was. I love those kind of books. I had no idea how it was going to play out and the ending stunned me. This is sort of brilliant!

I love this author. I have read every other book written by her and I’m never disappointed. She write the most gripping novels that you just can’t put down. This one is no different. So many twists and turns in the story, such great detail in all that is written. You feel like you’ve stepped in to the scene. I was totally gripped by the young girl in this book- you just have to read the book to find out the horrors she has seen. As the story unfolds, prepare for a shocker!!!

I love Katerina Diamond but this was an extremely so burner and took forever to get going. I think I was 60%/70% into it before I sat up and started to take notice and thought this is it now. Once it did get going I was completely enthralled and it didn’t disappoint. Although the ending was unbelievably rushed considering the long drawn out build up. If you stick with it you will enjoy but not everyone would stick it out to the point of when it becomes a page turner.

Thank you, Netgalley and the publisher for my advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Mandy Green has been kidnapped. Felicity lives with her husband and two children, bu feels, due to an incident in her past, that she must travel to Devon, where Mandy Green was taken. I have to say that this book just fell apart for me because it began to read like a YA novel at about the 20% mark. It just wasn't for me.

I really struggling to get into this book, I couldn't feel any connection with the characters or the storyline.

Oh. My. Goodness. That was a cracking book 4.5 stars. It was the summer that changed everything. 16 years ago a young man, Tim, came to town and by the end of that summer people had died and people had disappeared. Felicity (Flick) fled the town never to return. Until now. Now living in the Lake District Flick hears on the radio one morning that another young girl has gone missing from her hometown in Devon in a horribly similar way to back then. She feels driven to return and confront the ghosts of her past. So she kisses her family goodbye and drives off.

The story is told from two points of view (POV). In the present tense we get Felicity’s story as she retraces the steps from her past with mounting dread. We get the feeling that something terrible had happened. In the past we get the story from her best friend Jasmine’s POV and it was at Jasmine’s house, in the guest cottage, that the stranger, Tim, was ensconced. Jasmine felt straight away that there was something odd, something not quite right, with Tim but her parents seemed to like him and he was doing some renovations at their house for his board.

During that hot summer tension simmered between the young friends and Tim. Jasmine felt drawn to him but still didn’t fully trust him. But one fateful day blew everything wide open. If you picture the COVID-19 curve, it was pretty flat and only rising slowly for a long time at the start. Then it shot upwards. That was this book - a long slow burn that got suddenly hotter and ended with an almighty bang. I really enjoyed this and highly recommend it.

Slow to start, told from past and present, I preferred the past chapters and I really liked Jasmine as a character.

The book had plenty of tense moments and I did not guess the ending, which I do feel was a little rushed.

Overall, above average book, 3/5 stars.

When I first started this book I wondered why someone who left their home town so many years ago was compelled to go back when a crime was committed. However, this rollercoaster of flashbacks and current events soon got me sucked into the story. It is a typical Katerina Diamond book with twists and turns and a flawlessly orchestrated plot which tied up very well, but without being overly flamboyant or convoluted. A recommended read.

Well, holy heatwave. I live in Phoenix, so I am not really sure what a heatwave is, but I do know that this book sucked me in from the getgo!

After Felicity sees a news report about a missing teen girl in her hometown, her mind goes back to a time when another girl went missing. Through Felicity and her best friend's eyes, we get to see what truly happened to the missing teen all those years ago.

I will say, after getting the song "Heat Wave" stuck in my head for the first half and then "La Isle Bonita" in my head the second half, I was questioning whether I was really into the book or no. Turns out I was and am to glad I stuck with it.

There were soooooooooooooooo many twists and "holy shit" moments I am still left feeling dizzy! Thank you for a much needed distraction from the world and the heat that never seems to falter here! Arc received with thanks to Netgalley and the publisher.

Thanks to Netgally for the loan of this book.
Having read all other books by Katrina Diamond I was looking forward to this book, and although it was a good story, with a shocking twist, I prefer her previous books with the detectives storyline.
That said, this book was still a great read, and a brilliant story. I love Katrina's way of writing And this was no exception. The story centres on a young woman who after reading a news report about a missing girl, suddenly leaves her family to visit the town she grew up in to investigate the girl who's gone missing. Why is she so interested in this missing girl? Is she somehow linked to her? The story flicks between past and present and grows more intriguing page by page. The ending is shockingly brilliant. A must read.

I haven't read any of Katerina Diamond's novels before, so was very pleased to be introduced to her writing. Felicity returns to the town she was brought up in, but left in mysterious circumstances 16 years ago. What prompts her is news of a missing girl. Throughout the book we are teased with more information about why she is connected to this disappearance and how she could find the girl. This is a real page turner with twists and turns to the plot even through to the last page. I really enjoyed the book, although one or two points were rather farfetched. A good read and highly recommended.

The story starts out when Felicity hears a news story about a missing girl in the town she fled from sixteen years previously. She is distraught and feels compelled to go back home straight away. Another girl went missing just before Felicity left home all those years ago and she feels responsible and has to go back to help, only she can help.

The story alternates between the POV of Felicity in the present and Jasmine in the past. The plot is extremely slow, particularly when we are hearing from Felicity as she doesn’t seem to make any progress other than wandering around her home town and getting drunk. I did enjoy reading about what happened in the past from Jasmine. She was the only character that I felt anything for.

I didn’t see the twists coming at the end and it was almost worth the wait. However I was still left disappointed and felt that more tension should have been injected into the big reveal and the closing scenes, especially after sticking with the story to get there. The ending felt rushed and I was left feeling flat rather than satisfied.

Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this

I was a little disappointed when I realised that this was a stand alone.

I was so WRONG!

This book is absolutely brilliant. Going from the past to the present day we learn about Flick and her teenage years.

I was gripped from
The first paragraph and did not see the twists and turns coming. I tried to guess what was going on, but was far from the mark.

Another fantastic read from Katerina Diamond.

Thank you for letting me review this title

Rates this book over a few days it was so good . Highly recommend this book to all . Defiantly worth a read .

Wow what a fantastic book with a brilliant twist . I loved the characters and the great friendship with the 2 different lives of the friends . Just goes to show you never know what goes on behind closed doors and the perfect looking families are rarely that at all . I will be looking for more from this author,I highly recommend this book

A girl Felicity reads about the disappearance of a girl from her hometown which she had left many years previously . This leads to her going back home for the first time since she left . Her childhood had appeared happy , with her parents being well thought of and spending their holidays going around the world helping out with charitable projects . The family moved into a new home and allowed a young man , who had been homeless and sleeping in his car move into an annexe ., in exchange for help in doing work on the property .
At first this seems to be going well until the daughter suspects he is up to something strange. A teacher at her school gets fired for sexually assaulting her and later appears to have committed suicide . Her best friend has a drunken mother and it appears and is jealous of her supposedly happy family life . All is not as it seems as this exciting story unfolds with catastrophic discoveries from before and the present .

This was a slow-burner of a read. It took me quite a while to get into it. However, once it gets going, it is a killer of a book and certainly worth persevering through the start!
We are alternating between now and then chapters. In the ‘now’ chapters, we are following Felicity, a very troubled character. She has seen something on the news that has set the hairs on the back of her neck off. She knows this means she is going to have to revisit her past but will she get all the answers?
The ‘then’ chapters are following Jasmine, another morose character, telling us the story of both hers and Felicity’s past. What happened that summer that changed everything?
I really didn’t know what direction the book was going to take. I guessed one of the surprises, but the reasons for this I had no clue and they came out of left field and hit me over the head. I just didn’t see them coming at all. At this point, I was devouring the book so fast to get all the answers I think I finished it in record time.
It was brilliantly written. It gets you hooked slowly and builds up the story, so you are getting to know the characters. At one point with all the school friends, I was getting a bit lost of who was who but the main characters were easy to keep up with. The ’then’ and ‘now’ was clearly marked and wasn’t confusing at all.
Overall, a brilliant and engaging read that I’m glad I requested on NetGalley after only having read one other book by this author. I will certainly be reading more.

This is a must summer read!!!! A brilliant whodunnit which got me tapping my kindle faster and faster. Full of tension and suspense. In places my heart was racing and I just had to keep on reading I HAD TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!! This read gave my grey matter a real workout, I love the way this author tells a story, gets you well and truly hooked then WHAM you are reeled in. Another fantastic five star read from the Queen of Crime.
Thanks to Avon Books UK and Netgalley for the ARC.

Really enjoyable book with lots to keep you guessing throughout. You often think you know what is going on, but there are plenty of surprises and curveballs right to the very end!