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A review by jacki_f
Wild Place by Christian White
4.0
This reads like a twisty Harlan Coben-esque TV series. It's centered on a small community in Victoria in the closing weeks of 1989. A teenage girl has gone missing and while it's initially assumed that she's run away, the neighbours begin to suspect that a local boy might have been involved.
I pelted through this in a single afternoon, completely engrossed and wanting to know what was going to happen. As with The Wife and the Widow, White is brilliant at misdirection. There are a number of pleasing reveals along the way and then suddenly - bam! - a couple of whopper "I did not see THAT coming" twists. While ultimately I am not sure that there's much here that's memorable, it was a gripping read that I did not want to put down.
I pelted through this in a single afternoon, completely engrossed and wanting to know what was going to happen. As with The Wife and the Widow, White is brilliant at misdirection. There are a number of pleasing reveals along the way and then suddenly - bam! - a couple of whopper "I did not see THAT coming" twists. While ultimately I am not sure that there's much here that's memorable, it was a gripping read that I did not want to put down.