Six Wicked Reasons by Jo Spain

The Blurb On The Back:

One family.
One night.
Ten years of lives.

It’s June 2008 and twenty-one-year old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.

Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home. His siblings return reluctantly to Spanish Cove, but Adam’s reappearance poses more questions than answers. The past is a tangled web of deceit.

And, as tension builds, it’s apparent somebody has planned murderous revenge for the events of ten years ago.

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The Verdict:

Jo Spain’s standalone crime thriller is a tightly plotted affair that expertly shifts the action between the sibling narrators as they move from the night of the murder to the events of 10 years earlier. The relationship between the siblings is convincing and the slow reveal of Frazer’s cruelties also works well but the resolution in the final quarter relies on a number of contrivances and left me wondering if one character deserved their fate.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.