Then She Vanishes
Flora has her whole life ahead of her - until the summer night she vanishes.
Her sister Heather was a good girl - until the spring morning she kills two people.
Jess Fox was once like a sister to them both.
But called home to investigate Heather's crime, she begins to wonder if she really knew either sister at all . .
This is the first book I have read by Claire Douglas and none of it rang particularly true to me. First the guns, the author has absolutely no idea what a shotgun is. She keeps referring to bullets and only once from memory calls it a cartridge. Shotguns fire cartridges and if you shoot someone at point blank range you will make a big hole in them. Farmers as a rule have a 12 bore shotgun, no way would one leave a gun lying around for a child to pick up and more to the point farmers don't normally shoot their cows with one.
While the story of why did Heather shoot the two people and then seemingly try to commit suicide was fairly interesting, it was all very long winded and PC.
While not wanting to give anything away, the ending doesn't make sense and would easily be pulled apart by detectives.
A good idea but poorly thought through.
My copy was provided by NetGalley for review.