The Secrets We Buried
Becca Day
277 pages
Embla Books
published September 5, 2023
About the book
‘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…
My Review
OK that was wild. Or what I should start with is this one seems like a women’s fiction with a mystery before it turns into one wild ride. Three friends reconnect at a funeral and their old secrets threaten to come to the surface. And their lives come to be on display when an unknown podcaster focuses on trying to solve their friend’s murder. I’ll admit I wasn’t sure I liked anyone in the book, but I was dying (he he) to know who killed their friend and what secrets they were trying to protect. I suspected every character in the book pretty much and was never able to lock in on the killer.
It was quite a cat and mouse game with someone taunting knowing their secrets. Well, played. And that very last twist floored me, which rarely happens as I love to guess some wild and wacky things. Lots of red herring moments that tricked me. There is so much I want to say, but I also don’t want to spoil anything. It really does start out as a group of entitled women that can’t get over their differences to still be friends. Then morphs into a layered and conniving tale that kept me guessing until the very last pages.
Easy to read with a slow pace to start that builds to a crescendo. I’m going to have to look up her other books.
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