Making Up Amanda
Rozzi Bazzani
Reviewed by Helen
This is the first book I have read by this author and it won’t be the last, it is a gripping and compelling story from start to finish, set in Ballarat, Victoria, Marianna Del Re has just been offered a job as make-up artist for a new film by Paradise Productions is it a strange coincidence considering this was the company her mother worked for and the same town she went missing thirty one years ago.
Ballarat 1988 and actress Amanda King goes missing without a trace, she leaves behind a baby daughter who she loved very much, that daughter has been pushing for years to get the case re-opened, she wants answers. Young police officer Tom Burn does everything he can investigating this case but before he gets the answers the case is closed but Tom never forgets.
Tom is now on leave before retiring happy with his plants, when DI Rebecca Harpin is sent to town to re-open the investigation there are also two other missing women and a young girl who has now been reported missing, with the same film production company that Amanda was working for back in town, is there a link between the past and the present?
Marianna is determined to finally discover what happened to her mother all of those years ago and will help in any way she can, she discovers secrets that should help and between the three of them will they find the answers before any more woman go missing?
Fast paced and so well written this is a story that I highly recommend to anyone who loves a good police crime story and a mystery to uncover, filled with fabulous characters that the author brings alive for us to get to know things that have pushed them in their careers and lives that add to the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and look forward to more from MS Bazzani.
My thanks to the author for my digital copy to read and review.
Ballarat 1988 and actress Amanda King goes missing without a trace, she leaves behind a baby daughter who she loved very much, that daughter has been pushing for years to get the case re-opened, she wants answers. Young police officer Tom Burn does everything he can investigating this case but before he gets the answers the case is closed but Tom never forgets.
Tom is now on leave before retiring happy with his plants, when DI Rebecca Harpin is sent to town to re-open the investigation there are also two other missing women and a young girl who has now been reported missing, with the same film production company that Amanda was working for back in town, is there a link between the past and the present?
Marianna is determined to finally discover what happened to her mother all of those years ago and will help in any way she can, she discovers secrets that should help and between the three of them will they find the answers before any more woman go missing?
Fast paced and so well written this is a story that I highly recommend to anyone who loves a good police crime story and a mystery to uncover, filled with fabulous characters that the author brings alive for us to get to know things that have pushed them in their careers and lives that add to the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and look forward to more from MS Bazzani.
My thanks to the author for my digital copy to read and review.
5 stars
May 9, 2023
