Thank you to the author, publisher Viper, and online book club The Pigeonhole for the chance to read this. This is an honest and voluntary review.

 

Island life seems idyllic, but there’s darkness behind the doors of the island pub and shop. Time share holidayers and residents alike have dark secrets which spill over into jealousy and violence leaving one death and injuries behind.

 

Tina Baker is great at creating characters who have unlikable traits, but which are still sympathetic. The complexities of family dynamics, marriages and socially unsuitable relationships are all explored.

 

The central mystery of which of the women who you meet in the book were the ones who were attacked and who is missing isn’t really the plot line that drives the book. It’s will Kit and Hannah stay together in the face of the opposition from his mother and a family friend who think the son of a wealthy family and the barmaid with a reputation are an unsuitable match. It’s will Thor act on his increasingly dark fantasies. It’s will Christie and Sam save their toxic marriage. Will Nurse Kelly ever keep patient confidentiality for more than five minutes. And is it rumour or reality that’s provided the motive for whatever happened to the missing woman?

 

Great for anyone who likes multi character relationship dramas with an edge of mystery/thriller context.