The Ones Who Are Hidden
Kerry Wilkinson
346 pages
Bookouture
published May 15, 2023
About the book
‘Your tattoo… it’s exactly like mine.’ She hesitates. ‘But – I’ve never noticed it before. I must have had it since I was little.’
The ink markings on both of them are delicate, barely visible. Interlinked triangles in the shape of a daisy. But how can two strangers have matching tattoos, they didn’t know they had?
With their parents gone and nobody left to ask, when Georgia and Oliver first come to amateur sleuth Millie Westlake for help with their daisy-shaped markings she thinks the tattoos are a joke. A funny, if unusual, link between two strangers. In the seaside town of Whitecliff, stranger things have happened – especially to Millie herself.
But then Millie finds an artist who remembers giving someone the same tattoo twenty years ago. Someone who spent years hiding in the isolated woods outside Whitecliff – the same place unidentified bodies were once found…
Even as Millie gets closer to answers, she witnesses a shocking robbery that changes everything. And as whispers of what happened in the woods decades ago become louder, how much danger will Millie, Georgia and Oliver put themselves in, to uncover the mystery of the daisy-shaped markings and the dark truth about their pasts?
This gripping and character-driven mystery read is perfect for fans of Faith Martin, Ann Cleeves and LJ Ross.
My Review
This one had my attention from the start. Having a hidden tattoo, you don’t remember getting. Someone else having the same tattoo and story. Tell me more. I didn’t want to put this one down. And like in the previous installments, there is more than just the one story keeping the reader engaged.
With each new book, I like Millie and Guy a little more. While this book focuses more on Millie and she has a lot of character growth in this one. She is forced into standing up for herself and I applaud that. She was always a little pushed by her circumstances and now she is creating her path.
This series reminds me a little of a TV crime series. There is a stand alone mystery in each book, but the characters have issues and develop throughout the series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but you get a slightly bigger picture by reading them all.
Author Bio:Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.
He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.
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