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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
The eight days in question, from the title, refer to the disappearance of a local school girl, Emily Martin, in the quiet Devonshire town of Launceston, who then reappears eight days later, with no explanation of what has happened to her in the missing days. Slim, real name John Hardy, has been hired by the parents of the girl, Janes and Georgia Martin, to find out who took her and what actually happened to her. Slim is a former soldier turned P.I., who has just got out of prison after a few months, and needs a chance to make some money and keep sober. It should be a fairly straight forward job and he is being put up at the Martin’s home, so should be able to question Emily easily and find out who the main suspects were, as the incident happened almost two years ago. The only problem is that the girl is no longer staying with her parents, the relationship having fallen apart completely on her sixteenth birthday, which is kept from Slim for days. The mother, Georgia, is a bit of a perfectionist as a housewife it seems and can’t have anything out of place, so not knowing what happened to her daughter is making matters unacceptable and almost torturous. She even believes that the girl that came back and whom everyone says is her daughter, is not her daughter.
Slim finds it difficult to get much of any information from either parent and his attempts to speak to Emily are constantly put off. A local folk lore of The Woodland Man, is a story that seems to follow along with Emily’s disappearance and reappearance and is a tale that has been told to local kids for decades. What connection to the incident this may have is yet to be discovered. Just know that nothing will be straightforward and answers will be hard to come by. Especially anything that should reveal the truth! What comes out in the end is a very convoluted and hard to image crime, much worse than what Slim was hired to uncover. Be careful what you ask for, as secrets always have a way of coming out into the light! I look forward to reading more of the Slim Hardy series. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
Slim finds it difficult to get much of any information from either parent and his attempts to speak to Emily are constantly put off. A local folk lore of The Woodland Man, is a story that seems to follow along with Emily’s disappearance and reappearance and is a tale that has been told to local kids for decades. What connection to the incident this may have is yet to be discovered. Just know that nothing will be straightforward and answers will be hard to come by. Especially anything that should reveal the truth! What comes out in the end is a very convoluted and hard to image crime, much worse than what Slim was hired to uncover. Be careful what you ask for, as secrets always have a way of coming out into the light! I look forward to reading more of the Slim Hardy series. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.