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Friday, October 14, 2022

The Liars

 The Liars

Petronella McGovern



Reviewed by Helen


I was hard pressed to put this one down once I picked it up, it is compelling reading, in the small seaside town of Kinton Bay on the coast of New South Wales there have been secrets kept for many years, there has been cover ups, three people missing from 1998 these men have never been found were their cases investigated enough and can It all be happening again?

Meri and Rollo Britton have lived all of their lives in Kinton Bay, they have twins Siena and Taj, Meri is paranoid about the safety of her children and has an app on their phone so she can keep tabs on them and she has her reasons for this considering things that happened in her past, but are her two kids doing things they shouldn’t be?

When fifteen year old Siena Britton discovers a skull in the national park while researching past colonial history, Siena posts the video on YouTube and it goes viral this opens up a can of worms, her mother is not happy at all Meri is a journalist on the local paper and has lived in Kinton Bay all of her life, will her past now come back to haunt her and her husband Rollo?

Who does the skull belong to? Will it be one of the men who went missing years before and will further investigation cause problems for the Britton family and others in the small community, will the truth finally come out about the things that happened in the killing cave all those years ago, are they still happening now? So many questions so many twists and turns that me thinking and changing my mind.

This is a brilliant story, so well written it has fabulous characters Detective Poole investigated so well his wife Caroline a criminologist was great and Siena and Taj had me cheering them on and of course Meri and Rollo what they had been through and still they were strong and did what they should. MS McGovern has taken on issues that are in the news and done it so well with care and honesty. This is one that I would highly recommend, a captivating and gripping read.

My thanks to Allen & Unwin for my copy to read and review.

5 stars
Published August 30th 2022 by Allen & Unwin