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blodeuedd's review
3.0
I kept wondering and wondering, yes this book brought me quite the mystery to solve.
Lia is a doctor who comes to Norfolk to settle her grandmother's estate as her mother refuses too. Yes drama at the beginning. Lia is smart, sensible, but with a few issues from her past.
Norfolk is painted as harsh, those who live there, well live there, they know the land. But it fits well with the story, because something is going on. Someone was watching Lia's grandmother, and did someone kill her? That is the mystery. Because strange things keep on happening while Lia stays there.
There is also a friendship that slowly builds, a friendship that might or might not lead to romance. Aidan has his own issues from the war, and there is secrets he is keeping too. Those I did figure out..after a while. I also liked how their story was built, there was friendship and something that could be more. It was real.
The mystery was good, so many questions and so many different roads to take.
A good suspense novel, with a hint of romance.
Lia is a doctor who comes to Norfolk to settle her grandmother's estate as her mother refuses too. Yes drama at the beginning. Lia is smart, sensible, but with a few issues from her past.
Norfolk is painted as harsh, those who live there, well live there, they know the land. But it fits well with the story, because something is going on. Someone was watching Lia's grandmother, and did someone kill her? That is the mystery. Because strange things keep on happening while Lia stays there.
There is also a friendship that slowly builds, a friendship that might or might not lead to romance. Aidan has his own issues from the war, and there is secrets he is keeping too. Those I did figure out..after a while. I also liked how their story was built, there was friendship and something that could be more. It was real.
The mystery was good, so many questions and so many different roads to take.
A good suspense novel, with a hint of romance.
setaian's review
5.0
After the death of her grandmother, Lia returns to her childhood home to settle the estate. But as she is putting her grandmother's affairs in order she starts to suspect that her death was not an accident. As she investigates she grows closer to Aidan a former Navy clearance diver.
Aidan has his own agenda. He is determined to bring the Ministry of Defense to account for the death of his brother, but his methods could bring the law crashing down on him, and Lia soon realises he could well have been involved in the death of her grandmother.
With the whole town guarding their secrets Lia doesn't know who she can turn to and as she pulls at the threads of the truth, a faceless killer is stalking her.
Up Close is reminiscent of those great Alfred Hitchcock movies of the 1930s and '40s. A lot of authors try to imbue their books with that feel but very few authors actually succeed. Henriette Gyland has succeeded –– well and truly so. I was constantly reminded of Rebecca, Gaslight and perhaps even The Birds (another movie based on a Daphne du Maurier story).
This book is brooding, dark and edge of your seat all at once. Quite an amazing accomplishment.
Aidan has his own agenda. He is determined to bring the Ministry of Defense to account for the death of his brother, but his methods could bring the law crashing down on him, and Lia soon realises he could well have been involved in the death of her grandmother.
With the whole town guarding their secrets Lia doesn't know who she can turn to and as she pulls at the threads of the truth, a faceless killer is stalking her.
Up Close is reminiscent of those great Alfred Hitchcock movies of the 1930s and '40s. A lot of authors try to imbue their books with that feel but very few authors actually succeed. Henriette Gyland has succeeded –– well and truly so. I was constantly reminded of Rebecca, Gaslight and perhaps even The Birds (another movie based on a Daphne du Maurier story).
This book is brooding, dark and edge of your seat all at once. Quite an amazing accomplishment.
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