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"It's just to say that no one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?"

As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home, but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry.

With brilliantly controlled reveals, we learn some of the painful secrets of the couple's shared past, not least that it isn't the first time Lauren has disappeared. And as Mark struggles to care for his son and shield him from the truth of what's going on, the police seem dangerously short of leads. That is until a shocking discovery...

Doug Johnstone is the author of four novels, most recently Hit & Run, acclaimed by Ian Rankin as "great slice of noir" and by Irvine Welsh as "a grisly parable for our times". He is also a freelance journalist, a songwriter, and a musician and has a PhD in nuclear physics. He lives in Edinburgh.

©2013 Doug Johnstone (P)2015 Audible, Ltd Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Exciting

Critic reviews

"Excellent ...sharp and moving." (The Times)
"Calling to mind the best of Harlan Coben, Johnstone shows us how quickly an ordinary life can take one dark turn and nothing is ever the same again." (Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and The End of Everything)
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It was quite good, but a bit long winded, had the potential to be very good, but ran out of steam 😥
The narrator was good.

Weak ending

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Started off really well with a story of 'normal/everyday' people, in the middle of an unusual situation. Their lifes turned around, with emotion and frustration, but spiraled into a unrealistic, far-fetched, stream of events.

Gone Silly.

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Narration exceptional in spite of young children often being difficult to read. Gripping heartbreaking story.

exceptional narrator

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Very tense storyline edge of the seat stuff, narrated brilliantly by Angus King 5 out of 5

Superb

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Fantastically read by the narrator. This is a story based around an area I used to live as a child. All the locations the author describes are so vivid to me. It's great to find local stories that relate. great book.

There's been a MURDER, in Porty!

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