Four girls close their eyes. Only one wakes up.
Leah and her three best friends get changed into their pyjamas, eat pizza and argue about what film to watch. They laugh together until the early hours. But the next morning, Leah blinks open her eyes and sees three empty sleeping bags. The other girls are gone.
Twenty years later. In her small hometown, still-haunted Leah has never been able to shake off the rumours and whispers. How could she have slept through it all? She must know what happened.
Now, a documentary is being made about the night Leah’s best friends disappeared. Is the truth about to come out?
Then an anonymous email arrives in Leah’s inbox. ‘Stop them’.
Somebody out there knows what happened the night of the sleepover. Is Leah in terrible danger? And will she ever find her missing friends – or are some secrets meant to be kept forever?
An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with twists and turns that will make you gasp. Anyone who loves Lisa Jewell, Shari Lapena or The Perfect Marriage won’t be able to put this down.
Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.
He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.
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My thoughts: I used to have sleepovers when I was a teenager, luckily I never woke up to find all my friends missing, although I did once see my sister crouched on the floor eating the leftover popcorn we’d discarded and she definitely wasn’t invited!
But that’s what happened to Leah, at a sleepover at her friend Vicky’s house, she wakes up and her 3 friends are just gone. Not in another room, not playing a prank, just gone. And 25 years later, she still doesn’t know what happened. But someone out there does.
The brother of one of the other girls is making a documentary about the case. The police still have no answers, and he wants to find out whether anyone remembers something, a lead the cops didn’t follow perhaps.
Leah’s getting strange emails from “a friend” telling her to shut the film down or else. But she doesn’t know why they’re threatening her, she doesn’t know what happened. Or does she?
Kerry Wilkinson specialises in plots with twists and turns that you just can’t see coming and this one is no different. Just as you think he’s handed over the answers, it goes off in a different direction entirely and made my head spin. I have no idea where the sequel will go, this was so shocking.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
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