14 year-old Finn Douglas is missing.
Best friend Elliot is desperate to find him, but why is mutual friend Leah strangely reluctant to help?
Elliot’s pregnant mother fears her agoraphobia has returned, while his almost-brother, Bill, agrees to help look for Finn but risks exposing his secret drug habit in the process.
Meanwhile, ex-con Danny knows his nightclub is being infiltrated by drug dealers who work for a gang from his past. And drug dealer Leon can’t have the fresh start he wants until he has repaid his debt to the same criminal gang.
A collection of characters with dark pasts find themselves linked by a common mystery that they all have a clue to solving – what has happened to Finn Douglas?
Review:
Firstly, thank you for the author and TBConFB for an advance copy of this brilliant book.
I feel this book should comes as a warning and education to your people. It was written with grit and reality to it and it didn't hide anything. It is a part of a series but I read this as a standalone novel and it can be read like that as it gives hints at previous events in the lives of the main characters which also means spoilers so if you want to read the whole series, read it in order.
The book goes into the world of some of the poorer town areas where drugs and drug dealing is on the rise, drug dealers using younger kids to deliver packages to earn a bit of money. When a 14 year old Finn goes missing. his friend Elliot starts looking for him and with some unexpected friends, they uncover a complicated web of drug dealing and hierarchy.
It's brilliant and gritty and detailed and raw and I loved it. I have read other books by this author and will most certainly read others. I love her writing style, the truthfulness of her characters and actions. She has a great talent showing how weak and vulnerable humans really are and how some mistakes have a domino effect on whole families, but that redemption is also real.
Just excellent - and as this was my last finished book for 2025 - what an end! Thank you
Rating: 5/5
