Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell.
When two families organise a house swap, it seems like the perfect holiday arrangement.
The Browns will exchange their London townhouse for a stunning chateau in the south of France, the perfect place to relax and rekindle their flagging marriage.
And the Lesters are looking forward to showing their son, Rafael, around their old haunts in the British capital.
Sounds wonderful. Except for one thing – both families are hiding dark secrets, and secrets have a way of coming out…
In France, there’s a mysterious break-in at the chateau. Then the Browns discover that a woman who lived there disappeared and was never seen again. Instead of feeling rested and relaxed, they now feel isolated and vulnerable.
Then, in London, 17-year-old Rafael vanishes without a trace.
As the tension mounts to an unbearable pitch, both couples are forced to face their darkest demons. Someone won’t be coming home…
Miranda Rijks is a writer of fast-paced, twisty psychological thrillers many of which have been Amazon bestsellers. She has an eclectic background ranging from law to running a garden centre.
After surviving bone cancer, Miranda turned to writing and is now living the dream, writing suspense novels full time.
She lives in West Sussex, England with her Dutch husband and two black Labradors and spends as much time as she can in the Swiss Alps.
This is her twenty-third psychological thriller with Inkubator Books.
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My thoughts: I’m not sure I’d want to do a house swap, although a holiday in Provence would be great (although not in December). But the two families in this book swap a falling down French villa for a Kensington town house, apparently to see if it’s a viable prospect for Elodie’s business to expand into.
However some of the people involved have ulterior motives and the supposed Provencal idyll is far from it, the house is damp, smelly and has builders working on it. The neighbours seem nice, but they don’t get on with the usual residents, so they too might have their own reasons for being chummy.
Meanwhile in London, the Lesters aren’t having a good time either, their marriage is teetering on the edge and Piers learns a huge secret that could destroy everything, and that’s before their son Raf goes missing.
The perfect holiday starts to become the perfect nightmare for both couples.
Miranda Rijks’ books are always really fun and the twists are always total surprise, as it is here. I didn’t see some of them coming at all and the connections between the two families were a shock. I was hooked from the beginning, partly because swapping houses is just not something I would ever do, strangers rummaging through my stuff – no thanks. Really enjoyable, intelligent and full of suspense.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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Thank you so much for being a part of the tour x
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