Hide and Seek: The unmissable new crime thriller from the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of All Her Fault

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This story shows how entwined this community was back in the eighties, where everyone knew everyone, how rumours spread and ruined lives while the truth remains well hidden. A smart, well-plotted, tense and suspenseful read with a cast of characters about whom you’ll find yourself constantly second-guessing. This was a domestic thriller that wasn’t slow but wasn’t fast paced either, I enjoyed the multiple timelines and thought they worked really well.

Andrea flawlessly spins a web of mystery and ensnares you into a false sense of security, in which you think you have it all figured out, you know exactly who is to blame and then she violently rips the carpet right-out from under you. To begin with, I did think there were a lot of characters in this book, but once I had figured out who was who, I allowed myself to be able to come fully absorbed into the book.When Joanna realises that Lily once lived there, she is immediately overcome with an awful sense of dread that she just can’t shift.

Told in dual timelines, from Joanna’s perspective and travelling back to the 1980s when Lily went missing, the suspense builds and it is hard to know who to trust as the reader is kept guessing and the revelations keep coming. But when she finds out that it once belonged to the Murphy family who’s daughter Lily went missing when she was 3 years old, Joanna feels unsettled and upset that it wasn’t mentioned before. Hide and Seek follows a similar formula; the introduction raises question after question, sometimes to the point of tedious repetition, the middle bursts open the narrative with possibilities, the conclusion offers an out-of-left-field ending that somehow ties everything up effectively.For this quite little neighbourhood that Joanna and her young family have recently moved into has lots to hide and when Joanna discovers the young girl that went missing in the 1980’s used to live in their house, her sense of discomfort and of something not being quite right eats away at her.