- This edition an e-book on Kindle (Amazon)
- ASIN : B0C1RV95XK
- Publisher : Penguin (September 17, 2024)
- Print length : 346 pages
Synopsis (Amazon)
Sometimes those we love hide the darkest secrets…
One beautiful Californian evening, a wealthy businessman falls to his death from his secluded cliff-top house onto the rocks below.
A tragic accident? Or murder?
Nora and her half-brother Sam suspect it may be the latter, and team up to uncover the truth of what really happened that night.
But their relationship has never been easy, and it is about to be tested to the limit as they start to question how well either of them really knew their elusive father.
Unravelling his mysterious past takes them back to a world they knew nothing about, to a tangled love affair and a web of relationships that other people would far rather stay buried...
Filled with passion, intrigue, lies, and dark, dark family secrets, The Night We Lost Him is a page turning mystery you won’t ever want to put down.
My Take
Nora doesn't really want to believe that her father Liam, usually so sure-footed, slipped to his death from outside his house. Nor does she want to believe it was suicide. So was he pushed? That is what her half-brother Sam believes. But his twin Tommy thinks they should leave it all alone.
Their attempt to unravel what happened is hampered by the fact that Liam's body was cremated, and also by the complexities of his multiple marriages and the fact that they don't know everything and that people don't give them straight answers when they ask questions.
The book is written in two time frames: the present and the immediate past, and then what happened when Liam was a young man. And then about half way through the book, you, the reader, realise that you know some things that Nora and Sam don't.
At the same time as they are unravelling the past both Nora and Sam are dealing with issues in their own lives, that add a poignancy to the story.
Recommended.
My Rating: 4.6
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