The Family at No. 12
Anita Waller
336 pages
Boldwood Books
published November 29, 2022
About the book
When Janette answers the door to a potential customer looking to board his dog, she never imagines he has nefarious plans.
But minutes later he’s dead and in her cellar.
Weeks later she realises she’s pregnant.
And so she becomes Mother and the baby Child, and a hidden life begins.
But all secrets come out eventually . . .
My Review
This is my first read of the author, but who can’t resist an author that began her career at sixty-nine? It starts out at a slow pace but picks up and really is quite dark and disturbing. I am still wondering what it was I read. I really didn’t like Janette in the beginning and the feeling just grew through the book. Of the three sections, I liked the first section best. The book is well written, but it is a difficult read. While I agree with Janette that I like animals better than people a lot of the time, her disturbing behavior haunts me.
I think those that like gritty and dark family plotlines will connect with this one.
Author Bio –
Anita Waller is the author of many bestselling psychological thrillers and the Kat and Mouse crime series. She lives in Sheffield, which continues to be the setting of many of her thrillers, and was first published by Bloodhound at the age of sixty-nine. Her first book for Boldwood will be published in August 2022.
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