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Her fresh start is about to turn into a nightmare...
'A fantastic thriller - a lone woman, a nightmare scenario, high stakes, breathless suspense...It doesn't get better than this' LEE CHILD
'A fantastic thriller - a lone woman, a nightmare scenario, high stakes, breathless suspense...It doesn't get better than this' LEE CHILD
'A brilliant, relentless rollercoaster of suspense that shreds your emotions' PETER JAMES
Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She’s taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start.
Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention and finds herself on an empty road in Arizona, far from home. She's looking for a safe place to stay for the night when she spots something in her rear-view mirror. A police car is following her and the lights are flickering. Blue and red.
As Audra pulls over she is intensely aware of how isolated they are. Her perfect escape is about to turn into a nightmare beyond her imagining…
Dark secrets and a heart-pounding race to reveal the truth lie at the heart of this page-turning thriller.
Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She’s taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start.
Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention and finds herself on an empty road in Arizona, far from home. She's looking for a safe place to stay for the night when she spots something in her rear-view mirror. A police car is following her and the lights are flickering. Blue and red.
As Audra pulls over she is intensely aware of how isolated they are. Her perfect escape is about to turn into a nightmare beyond her imagining…
Dark secrets and a heart-pounding race to reveal the truth lie at the heart of this page-turning thriller.
Review
I began reading this book one evening and by the time I put the light out to sleep I was afraid I was going to have nightmares, as I do have an overactive imagination. I then purposely read the book only in the day time, which as it turned out was only a few hours as the story line had me well and truly hooked.
To put this into context for you, I just found the story very unnerving in the beginning and I was concerned that the horrifying dark web content was going to go into details, fortunately it didn't. What did happen is that Audra finds herself in jail without her children and you are left wondering if the police aren't on her side, how on earth will she ever get out of this hell?
The author has a very clever answer to Audra getting help and in its own way it also brought me a little anxiety, but the will she won't she aspect of the book just drove me to read it in two sittings. All the characters were very well drawn - perhaps too well sometimes I certainly wouldn't like to meet them. That is apart from the children - Sean, Audra's son is certainly a smart cookie and he too was a very believable character.
I'm giving this book 4 out of 5 stars and my thanks go to Netgalley and Vintage for a review copy of the book.
BTW apparently Haylen Beck is a pseudonym of Stuart Neville. I have never read any of his books but you may wish to know that if you want to read this book.
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