A review by jonid
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood

4.0

The book starts off with an email from the godmother of 3 year old twin, Coco Jackson who has gone missing, begging for help in locating her. The chapters go back and forth in time from 2004, the weekend Coco went missing after her father Sean's 50th birthday and the present when one of the daughters from the first of his 4 marriages learns of his death and upcoming funeral. It's a slow moving plot, populated with friends and wives and children and step children. The roadie doctor who knows his way around pills and drugs, the PR maven who knows how to spin a story, the daughter of friends who has a huge crush on a friend of her fathers all are in the present and the past. Sean has an amazing capacity for not taking responsibility, shifting blame onto everyone else, a petulant child of a man whose every move revolves around his own happiness. As long held secrets unfold, more les need to be created by many characters all working hard to keep their footing -- and the end is an unexpected treat where the reader gets some answers but nothing ends neatly.