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Tudor nails it again with this clever, disturbing novel where the scars of an old mining community are opened by a slash of cold murder. He hasn’t been back in over twenty years as his childhood memories harbour plenty of painful secrets that he has tried hard to forget and move on from.

Even with an ending that was somewhat shocking, I was still left with too many unanswered questions. This book was all over the place as both a “revenge thriller”, a “run from the loanshark/ mob enforcer thriller” and a “supernatural mystery” all in one. When she showed up again, 48 hours later, it was obvious to Joe that there was something wrong with his sister.Tudor has a remarkable writing style that snaps you up and brings you right in the midst of shifting sands. In the present time there was also a boy that died at his mother's hand, just before she committed suicide. Smartly written and brilliantly plotted, here is a book that crawls under your skin and hooks on until you reach that jaw-dropping ending.

I skipped this one last year after reading some mixed reviews from my GR friends, but after reading her latest, I just had to see which "side" I'd come out on! This is is slow paced and take a really long path in revealing the secrets but that doesn't make it less interesting.This is one of those books that you cover your eyes with your hand while still looking through the space between your fingers, saying no, no, no, not that. Stars— I noticed that many of my Goodreads friends had recently read “The Hiding Place” and gave it favorable reviews so I decided to read C. The characters are spot on, the setting takes on a life of its own, and you will be fully immersed into the storyline, dying to find out how it will come together. The guesswork left to the reader is interesting, though there are some nagging aspects that plague the narrative until the final chapters, rectifying an entire story’s worth of confusing in a single reveal. For me, it’s almost as if the author just threw in a bunch of cliché happenings hoping they would carry the story.