Can't Let Go by Jane Hill

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Can't Let Go by Jane Hill

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1QueenOfDenmark
feb 23, 2009, 5:22 pm

I have to recommend this one here, it's the first book of this type (thriller/murder mystery type) that I have read in a long time where I haven't guessed at least part of the ending.

When Beth was seventeen and known as Lizzie she killed a man and got away with it. But she has spent the eighteen years since then haunted by his ghost, by her guilt and by her fear that someday, someone will find out her secret. And it seems that day has come.

A lifetime of hiding and trying to make herself invisible is blown apart in an instant with the delivery of an anonymous note, the first of many, and blows Beth's carefully guarded life apart.

I didn't even think I knew the ending to this one, it came as a complete surprise to me, a rare thing with books these days, but it was also well written, fast paced and very, very good.

I would recommend this to readers of Nicci French or Sophie Hannah (because it is told from the point of view of the victim, if you can call her that, rather than from the police or investigators) as well to to any fans of thrillers or crime dramas.

2QueenOfDenmark
jun 11, 2009, 6:18 am

Just to update this, I have read the two other Jane Hill novels that I know are out at the moment and enjoyed them too.

They are The Murder Ballard and Grevious Angel and I think they were both written before Can't Let Go, which is still my favourite of hers.

The Grevious Angel touchstone brought up the wrong book with no option to change it but I have left it in because it brings up a book about a singer who is mentioned a lot in the book so I thought it might be interesting as a link.

I think that Jane Hill is perhaps a hidden gem as an author and definately recommend her books, I'm really looking forward to her next one (whatever and whenever that may be.)