Rating: 4 stars

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Tessa is a loving mum to two daughters, Rosie and Emma. When Emma is attacked on her way home from a party, and then the identity parade falls apart, her world falls apart too. When Tessa sees her daughter's attacker on the street nearby, living just around the corner from herself and Emma, how far will Tessa go to keep her daughter safe?

I really loved this book. It was a proper page-turner, and when I hit 90% through on my lunch break today, I was furious that I had to go back to work instead of finishing the novel. Cohen had me totally invested from page one. Tessa made some really stupid decisions, but they felt realistic and characteristic of a scared woman on her last resort to protect her children. From the summary, I was curious about how the novel would progress when the attacker was known from the start, but there was enough threat and mystery to make this an addictive read, with secrets and hidden histories cropping up all the time. Cohen left breadcrumbs throughout the novel, so I felt like a conspiracy theorist frantically putting clues together to find my own narratives. I was wrong about some of them, and right about some of them (one of which I'm extremely smug about calling as early as I did).