A review by maureen72
Vengeance Is Mine by Michael Wood

5.0

Vengeance is Mine by Michael Wood is a standalone novel. I’m a big fan of Michael’s work. This was certainly a different to his other books but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It was a very clever story. In 1999, a 13 year old girl, Stephanie White, disappears on her birthday. A man, Dominic Griffiths, was jailed for her murder. We move forward 20 years. Dominic had a daughter who finds out who her father is just before he is released. All the emotions Dawn goes through having to process it are portrayed very well. I was drawn into it as I was carried along emotionally. Dawn tries to come to terms with the situation and she decides she wants to know the truth as she tries to make sense of it. It made me feel sad, the number of lives that the murder touched, the lives it destroyed. It made me question what I would do in the same situation as Dawn, whether I would want any contact with my father if he was a murderer. This situation puts husband against wife as feelings boil over. Great writing and a great pace. It was hard to put down.