Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
Jenny has a secret; one she has successfully hidden creating a new life for herself working as a vet in a quiet Devon village. The past has a habit of refusing to stay buried, when a young woman is abducted, the crime resembles those of her father, a notorious serial-killer now serving a life sentence. Worse still Jenny has started to have back-outs, and someone is leaving the mutilated corpses of animals on her doorstep after dark.
This is a skillfully crafted psychological thriller written with unique insiders’ knowledge by someone who worked with some of the UK’s most vicious criminals. Hunter plays artful and unsettling games with the gossipy atmosphere of village life thrown into overdrive by having more than tittle-tattle to feed on.
In Jenny she has created a character caught in the web of, understandable, half-truths she has spun to create a new life and trying to knot the strands back together as someone snaps them one at a time. The book also asks awkward questions about memory, inheritance and just how well any of us know the people we are closest to, finding mostly unsettling answers.
This is a well written and often unsettling novel that keeps readers guessing and is surely crying out to be made into the must watch TV drama of the autumn after next.
