Today, I’m part of the blog tour for The Secrets We Buried by Becca Day. Thanks to Tracy Fenton of Compulsive Readers for the invite to tag along and the copy of the ebook to write my honest review.
‘If you ever tell my secret, you’ll be dead to me.’
THE FRIEND: When ordinary mum Frankie moves into her new seaside home, it is a dream come true. Her new neighbours – glamorous Zara, ambitious Nadine and social butterfly Geneva – soon take her under their wing. The four women become inseparable. Until the morning when Geneva’s body is found on the beach.
THE HUSBAND: Suspicion is immediately cast on Geneva’s husband. Everyone believes he must be guilty. But when the police don’t charge him, he vanishes without trace. Now, five years later, he’s back.
THE SUSPECTS: And he’s not the only one. Soon no one is beyond suspicion. Dark secrets that have been hiding behind closed doors begin to be revealed, with devastating consequences.
But one person will do whatever it takes to make sure that one secret never comes to the surface…
A totally gripping and page-turning psychological thriller with a killer twist you just won’t see coming. Fans of T M Logan, K L Slater and Shalini Boland will be hooked from the very first page.
A psychological thriller is always a favourite genre for me. The Secrets We Buried sounded just up my street. Becca Day, being a brand new author to me, I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading this book. So I just started reading, thinking I would read a chapter or two. How wrong I was!
The story is told through multiple perspectives of Frankie, Zara, and Nadine. Then there are the transcripts from a youtuber channel, ran by Juniper Rose. She has decided that she is going to dig into the death of Frankie, Zara, and Nadine’s friend Geneva, five years previously. Juniper wants to solve the case.
She plans on finding out if Geneva’s husband was the killer or not and doesn’t care who she takes down along the way. Frankie, Nadine, and Zara each have their own secrets, and Juniper Rose is gunning for them.
Once I got a few pages in this book, I really hooked me. First, the youtube transcripts and then each woman had alternate chapters. I was so intrigued by about the fourth chapter that I just couldn’t tear myself away. The setting Becca Day used of Sandbanks in Dorset really had me picturing the area. The way she had me felt that it was a special place, a place where the rich went to live with homes I could never get near.
The characters all pulled me in, too. The way Becca Day dedicated a chapter to each of the women put me in their heads. The thoughts and emotions of each woman gave me insight into their actions and decisions each step of the way. I felt for them as the story unfolded, and the secrets slowly came to the surface.
I couldn’t help but come to conclusions that turned out to be wrong. The way the twists were placed just kept the tension high as the suspense kept inceasing. I have to say this is a page-turner of a psychological thriller. As each chapter ended, I couldn’t wait to see what would be next for everyone.
The Secrets We Buried keeps the pace fast, and the shocks just keep on coming. There are no lulls in the story. It’s a highly charged thriller that doesn’t let go from start to finish. I was obsessed with finding out who killed Geneva and why. The final twist was brilliant! It was one of those noments that makes this book as addictive as it is!
I have a brand new go-to psychological thriller author now. I even read another one of her books after this, too! I liked this one that much.
Author Bio
Becca Day lives in Surrey with her husband, two daughters and cocker spaniel. She studied acting at Guildford College and went on to start her own Murder Mystery theatre troup. It was this move that inspired her love of crime fiction, and when she sold the company she threw herself head first into crime writing. Her short fiction has won several prizes and The Girl Beyond The Gate is her first full-length novel. Aside from writing, she is also an avid reader and runs Reading Parties with fellow author William Shaw.
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