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Release Date: 3rd February 2022 / Publisher: Century Books

By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands.

In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway.

Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think.

But when they get to Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note that claims one of their husbands has been murdered. Their phones are out of range. There's no internet. They're stranded. And a storm's coming in.

Friendships fracture and the situation spins out of control as each wife tries to find out what's going on, who is responsible and which husband has been targeted.

This was a tight-knit group. They've survived a lot. But they won't weather this. Because someone has decided that enough is enough.

That it's time for a reckoning.

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My Review

This was a tense psychological thriller based around a weekend away for a group of friends and their husbands.  Emily, Jayne and Ruth are heading to a secluded cottage in Northumbria, awaiting the arrival of their husbands the next day.  When they arrive at the cottage however, they find a note saying that one of their husbands will be dead by the time they read it.  This then begins a race against time as the women to try and get in touch with their husbands and work out who left the note.

The story is told from the perspectives of several different characters. This did get a little confusing at times, particularly as there didn't appear to be any chapters separating out the storyline.  This was an advance review proof copy, so the lack of chapters may have been because of this and not something which would be in the final version of the book.  The three women were three completely different personalities, and it did make me wonder how they were friends in the first place!  I didn't particularly like any of them initially, but my opinion of them changed as the storyline moved on, taking different sides as their stories came out.

It's a very dark book and the location certainly added to the mystery.  It was really difficult to work out who was behind it all, and I was well over half way through the book when I had any inkling as to what was going on.  All of the characters seemed to have something to hide and it was difficult to work out who you could trust.  The suspense carried on as the storyline twisted and turned to its gripping conclusion.  Whilst confusing initially, I did settle into the storyline and the pace picked up very quickly and continued throughout.  It was filled with mistrust, secrecy, lies and deceit and it kept me turning the pages right to the end.  Would recommend.

The Author

Gilly Macmillan is the Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author of THE NANNY (out 2019). Also WHAT SHE KNEW (previously published as BURNT PAPER SKY in some territories), THE PERFECT GIRL, ODD CHILD OUT & I KNOW YOU KNOW.

Gilly is Edgar Award nominated and an ITW award finalist. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages.

She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire and also lived in Northern California. She studied History of Art at Bristol University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Gilly lives in Bristol, UK with her family and writes full time.

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