It’s a sad, sad story and enough to get you hooked – as this series continues I have the feeling that we’re going to fall under Fawley’s rather melancholy spell.īy an odd coincidence, this book is set in the same area as MJ Ford’s Hold My Hand (there’s even a clown, for good measure). The author drip-feeds us with tasty snippets that eventually reveal some of the reasons behind it. From early on there are hints that all is not well in his private life and he and his wife have a prickly, difficult relationship. Not content with giving you a complicated and hugely engrossing tale of a little girl’s disappearance, Hunter also creates a complex protagonist in the shape of Adam Fawley. Hunter is a mistress of misdirection and she takes you on many a mystery tour before all is revealed in an ending that had been so cleverly concealed it left me open-mouthed. The further I got into this intriguing book, the more I found myself leaping to one conclusion after another – all of them wrong. It is cleverly and convincingly done and works really well.
Suddenly, everyone looks suspect and all of the Masons appear to have something to hide… In a clever nod to today’s tendency to trial by social media, we also get occasional Twitter threads where all manner of suspicions are aired and the Masons come under close scrutiny.
Or did they? As DI Adam Fawley and his team begin to dig deeper, that ‘perfect family’ image begins to fracture. She even had a pretty daisy costume to wear and witnesses remember her running around excitedly as the party got into full swing. She’s been looking forward to the barbecue and to dressing up with her friends. Daisy is a bright and willing student who has lots of friends. On the surface they appear normal – husband Barry, his wife Sharon and their children Leo and Daisy live in an executive home on a well-to-do estate in Oxford. Who could have taken her and is she dead or alive? Simple enough questions, but don’t expect any straightforward answers in Cara Hunter’s sneakily deceptive debut novel.įor a start, the word ‘dysfunctional’ was coined for the Mason family. Written by Cara Hunter - Eight-year-old Daisy Mason is missing, spirited away from a family barbecue by person or persons unknown.
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