Joe Thornes sister Annie went missing when she was 8. She returned two days later, a very different child than before. Years later Joe is back in his old town when history seems to be repeating itself.

First off I read The Chalk Man recently and I loved it. The Hiding Place was another great novel from CJ Tudor.

What I enjoyed: I loved the way there were all of these threads from the past and the present that seems as though they could never be tied nicely together, and yet they did. This novel had so many aspects and I just couldn’t see how the paranormal, mob, exorcist, it type storylines could possibly be a part of this story line. And yet it was written so well by the end I realized it couldn’t have ended up any different. Joe was just enough of an asshole that I hated to like him. He was a loner, with a past that wouldn’t stay in the past. I loved the tie ins to this quiet mining town that had deeper roots than you could ever imagine.

CW; Cancer, suicide, gore, child death, assault, murder, alcoholism

I am looking forward to The Other People!