14 September 2022

Review: THE WRONG WOMAN, J. P. Pomare

  • This edition published by Hachette Australia
  • available from my local library

  • Jul 27, 2022
  • ISBN 9781869718190
  • 334 pages

Synopsis (publisher)

IT WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT. WASN'T IT? A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thriller.

Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising his former Chief of Police boss he'd never return. He made a new life in the city, became a PI and turned his back on his old life.

Now an insurance firm has offered him good money to look into a suspicious car crash, and he finds himself back in the place he grew up - home to his complicated family history, a scarring relationship breakdown and a very public career-ending incident.

As Reid's investigation unfolds, nothing is as it seems: rumours are swirling about the well-liked young woman who crashed the car, killing her professor husband, and their possible connection to a local student who has gone missing.

Soon Reid finds himself veering away from the job he has been paid to do. Will he end up in the dangerous position of taking on the town again?

My Take

A woman has driven her car into a tree, killing her husband. Two teenage girls are missing.  A private investigator, once a policeman, is employed to investigate the crash, to find out if it really was an accident, or did the woman deliberately drive her car into a tree? Why would she? Are these strands all linked?

There are a number of mysteries for the reader to solve. Why did Reid leave the twin towns in California originally? Why did he promise never to return?

A tightly woven plot, hints dropped here and there, told mainly by two narrators, threaded skilfully between the past and the present.

Pomare is an author to watch out for.

My rating: 4.7

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