‘Ten Days’ by Mel Sherratt is her newest offering to us. I have always loved Mel’s work I wasn’t expecting it to be anything less than superb and I was correct! It’s amazing.
Women in Stoke-On-Trent have been going missing from the streets but have been found ten days from the moment they disappeared. The police themselves are unable to work out who the culprit is or if any other women will be taken. Eva is a journalist and is the latest victim of this kidnapper who has been the focus of her reporting since the women began going missing. Eva is certain she will be released after ten days, just as the other women were, but nothing is ever guaranteed. As the kidnapper speaks to her she realises she must revisit the past, an event from her childhood she never wanted to remember, to escape from this ordeal.
The story is told in the present day with flashbacks to 2006 and 2007. A compulsive and gritty thriller that contains several twists that keep you on your toes. Told from Eva and the kidnapper’s viewpoint you are drawn into their worlds and Mel Sherrat has even managed to create a character in the kidnapper that, in a tiny part of your head, you find you can empathise with, even though they are the perpetrator. Her character development is superb always.
As the story unfolds, the emotion, tension and suspense begins to crank up along with the drama. It left me dying to know how it would all work out. I finished this in a day It flowed so well and I needed to know that bad I just couldn’t stop reading!
Another excellent book from the star that is Mel Sherratt, to me anyway.
Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for the copy of the book to bring you my thoughts.
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