Author: Alice Feeney
Year published: 2025
Category: Adult fiction (thriller)
Pages: 320 pages
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Location: (my 2024 Google Reading map): UK
Summary: Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.
Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.
A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.
Wives think their husbands will change, but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t chang,e but they do.
Review: And my last book of the year is another Book of the Month Club. What a way to finish 2024. This one was really good and had me flipping pages from the very beginning. I liked Feeney's Daisy Darker (link to my review), but this one was better.
The remote Scottish island is a great location with forests, dense fog, a small village, no way to escape, and a semi-creepy cast of characters. Just when I thought I had things figured out, a twist would come that made me turn the pages more quickly.
Grady is a good character that I (mostly) liked almost to the end. Though we know something is up with the island inhabitants, I thought the other characters were good and all played an important role in the story.
I don't want to say too much in case I give anything away, but if you like thrillers, this is for sure one to read.
Challenges for which this counts:
- Cloak and Dagger
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