Claire Douglas is one of my favourite authors. I’ve given all of her books 5 stars. So this was an automatic read for me. I was interested if my rating would be different as I now use CAWPILE.
Something felt missing at the beginning. But looking back I feel like because I went into this completely blind it was just me trying to know what the mystery was supposed to be.
Part one of this was very much building the atmosphere and suspicions around one character. But I felt like it couldn’t be that easy. Claire Douglas books are never that easy.
Part two however is where things changed. It starts months after the end of part one. With a new POV of a character we have never met before. Which intrigued me. I had questions left from part one.
At first I wished we didn’t get the main answer regarding Una straight away. We knew what happened but not who did it. But after finishing the book it made perfect sense to go the way Claire did.
Claire Douglas has a way of making everyone look suspicious. This is no exception. Even a random boyfriend of a side character with no obvious connections to majority of the characters. Which when trying to think of some theories can be a bit frustrating. In a good way. You have no idea where it could possibly go.
Right up until the end I was changing my mind of who was the killer and why they did it. Especially as the victims only had one thing in common. Where they began working.
The twists kept me on the edge of my seat. Wondering where it could go. Throughout the book I don’t think I guessed a single twist.
I will say the final twist/reveal in the epilogue wasn’t really necessary. It made sense to explain Jacob behaviour but I feel like it was just to add some final drama.