Take a photo of a barcode or cover
noveldeelights 's review for:
The Woman in the Wood
by Lesley Pearse
All my reviews can be found at www.noveldeelights.com
The year is 1960. Twins Duncan and Maisy are awoken in the middle of the night when their father decides to have their mother placed in an asylum. Soon after, they are both sent to live with their grandmother at her country house, Nightingales. Grandmother isn’t exactly the wonderful caring kind and leaves the twins’ care to the capable hands of her housemaid. Duncan and Maisy are left to explore and grow, until one day Duncan doesn’t return home. Could he have been taken by the mysterious woman in the wood?
The Woman in the Wood is Lesley Pearse’s 25th book and her experience truly shows. If you think the author may have exhausted topics to write about and deliver anything less than fresh, you’d be awfully mistaken. I’ve only read one book by her so far and while this one is decidedly darker than the one I read previously, it offers everything you could possibly hope for. From crime and family drama to a little dash of quite innocent romance, the author manages to blend everything together seamlessly.
Obviously, there’s a mystery to solve and the tension is palpable throughout as Maisy edges ever closer to danger in a desperate attempt to try and figure out what happened to her brother. This is a bit of a slow starter but the author carefully builds up the action until you find yourself trying to flip the pages faster and faster.
Lesley Pearse delivers some excellent characterisation. Each and every one of these characters came across as utterly realistic and believable, from the stiff upper lip of the grandmother to the mysterious woman in the wood. The story itself takes a dark and twisted turn and may make for some uncomfortable reading to some readers. I was hooked from start to finish and couldn’t put it down.
All in all, a well executed mystery with quite the satisfying ending.
The year is 1960. Twins Duncan and Maisy are awoken in the middle of the night when their father decides to have their mother placed in an asylum. Soon after, they are both sent to live with their grandmother at her country house, Nightingales. Grandmother isn’t exactly the wonderful caring kind and leaves the twins’ care to the capable hands of her housemaid. Duncan and Maisy are left to explore and grow, until one day Duncan doesn’t return home. Could he have been taken by the mysterious woman in the wood?
The Woman in the Wood is Lesley Pearse’s 25th book and her experience truly shows. If you think the author may have exhausted topics to write about and deliver anything less than fresh, you’d be awfully mistaken. I’ve only read one book by her so far and while this one is decidedly darker than the one I read previously, it offers everything you could possibly hope for. From crime and family drama to a little dash of quite innocent romance, the author manages to blend everything together seamlessly.
Obviously, there’s a mystery to solve and the tension is palpable throughout as Maisy edges ever closer to danger in a desperate attempt to try and figure out what happened to her brother. This is a bit of a slow starter but the author carefully builds up the action until you find yourself trying to flip the pages faster and faster.
Lesley Pearse delivers some excellent characterisation. Each and every one of these characters came across as utterly realistic and believable, from the stiff upper lip of the grandmother to the mysterious woman in the wood. The story itself takes a dark and twisted turn and may make for some uncomfortable reading to some readers. I was hooked from start to finish and couldn’t put it down.
All in all, a well executed mystery with quite the satisfying ending.