September 12, 2012

Beneath the Shadows

Author: Sara Foster
Genre: Fiction / Psychological Suspense
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2012
Pages: 320
Rating: Highly Recommend

Synopsis: When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns to the tiny village on the untamed heath.  Everyone—the police, her parents, even her best friend and younger sister—is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to let go of her memories of their love and life together, cannot accept this explanation.  She is desperate for answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace hunts through forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues, and digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot get them away in time.

Review: Excellent. This was a guilty pleasure. I was kept guessing until the very end. I would have loved more secrets and glimpses into the past. While this is along the same lines as Gone Girl, this one blew that one out of the water.

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