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A review by cheekylaydee
Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan
4.0
You can normally tell within the opening paragraphs of a book if it's going to be good. (i)Dear Amy(/i) went beyond my expectations, grabbing me from the first page, holding me in a vice like grip until the last word.
Margot Lewis has a lot on her plate. A demanding job as a teacher, a messy divorce to deal with and having to pop pills just to get to sleep. Despite all this, the thing that helps keep her head above water is focusing on other people's problems in the persona of Amy, the agony aunt in the local paper.
When she receives a letter from Bethan Avery, a girl who has been missing and presumed dead for the last twenty years she initially dismisses it as a sick prank by one of her students. Especially so considering that one of their schoolmates has been missing for several weeks now.
But there's something about the pleading voice in the letter, the childish scrawl, that rings alarm bells with Margot and when she receives a second letter, more urgent than the last the cold case police step in.
The story unravels along with Margot's life, peeling away the layers like the flesh of an onion, and what is revealed will in turn shock and thrill you, capturing you and binding it's spell, and it won't let you go until it's good and ready. A must read if you like a thriller with a twist. 4 stars.
Margot Lewis has a lot on her plate. A demanding job as a teacher, a messy divorce to deal with and having to pop pills just to get to sleep. Despite all this, the thing that helps keep her head above water is focusing on other people's problems in the persona of Amy, the agony aunt in the local paper.
When she receives a letter from Bethan Avery, a girl who has been missing and presumed dead for the last twenty years she initially dismisses it as a sick prank by one of her students. Especially so considering that one of their schoolmates has been missing for several weeks now.
But there's something about the pleading voice in the letter, the childish scrawl, that rings alarm bells with Margot and when she receives a second letter, more urgent than the last the cold case police step in.
The story unravels along with Margot's life, peeling away the layers like the flesh of an onion, and what is revealed will in turn shock and thrill you, capturing you and binding it's spell, and it won't let you go until it's good and ready. A must read if you like a thriller with a twist. 4 stars.