Buried secrets, hidden regrets and crime uncovered.
For many years, Lily and her partner had kept a terrible secret. When her partner dies, this secret becomes her burden alone. Soon it becomes an obsession.
Having worked alongside her more flamboyant partner in the publishing industry in London, the more sensitive Lily was used to playing second fiddle in their enigmatic social set. But their nice life hid a dark secret, one that she does not want to carry to her grave.
Many years ago, Lily and her partner covered up a crime. They took something precious that didn’t belong to them and lost it. Lily has had to live with the consequences of her actions until she is given the chance to repair the damage she has done.
This leads Lily down a dangerous path into the past. Disorientated, paranoid and scared, she uncovers a far graver crime. What she contemplates next is unthinkable.
BONE BABY is set in the present-day cities of Bath and Portsmouth in southern England. BONE BABY is the eleventh novel by Diane Dickson to be published by THE BOOK FOLKS. Diane has a distinctive style and her thrillers and mysteries explore the lives of ordinary people facing difficult situations. Look out for her bestselling LEAVING GEORGE and the recently-published TANGLED TRUTH.
What a surprise this book was !! It’s a new direction for me and a freebie on KU, I downloaded it THEN realized I’d tried The Grave by the same author and it had been full of mistakes and I’d packed it in. So I was in two minds but thought I’d see how it went……and I’m so pleased I did, as it appears she has herself a new proofreader or editor. There WERE still a couple of grammar mistakes, but didn’t detract from the story which I was pleased about!! NOW I will try another by her, whereas she’d have been on my s**t list if this one had been presented as poorly !! I found the book unravelled in a way that was totally different to what I”d gleaned from the synopsis and was set in the period more post-crime than anything much before it, which I hadn’t expected, and after I realised and moved away in my head from what was expected, as such, it opened up a in a whole new direction I’d not expected in the least, but enjoyed greatly, nonetheless. Hope I’m making some sort of sense. It’s easy when I know what I’m on about but I’m no wordsmith…… I really liked the 2 main characters, Lily and Terry. A fascinating thing the author did was never reveal their ages nor which year the present story is related in. So you get to make your own mind up, which isn’t as irritating as you might expect at all. In fact, I thought it was quite cleverly done, actually. I liked it was set a little in Hampshire, where I live, near to places I used to live. I was tickled to see Knight and Lee mentioned-a blast from the past, along with the dire parking situation in Southsea !! A place I never chose to live for the very same reason !! At times I was actually giggling to myself at the direction things were going, as poor Lily was getting herself so entangled in things she had no desire to, just trying to be nice and do the right thing. It actually made me gasp aloud at one point as well !! However, at times the images related were so sad I was teary….I highlighted some of those passages. This one I found particularly devastating. Someone young had died and she wrote “…condemned to a life so short that he never even learned to smile.” I didn’t like Charlotte Mary’s name but that’s a personal thing. I clearly read aloud as such in my head as it was annoying me I had this whole mouthful to “say” each time she was mentioned. I’ve always hated those bloody doubled-up christian names !! Glamarous is spelt glamorous, then flare is not flair and we had a few commas missed out but nothing like in The Grave and the odd misused apostrophe…a BIG error was referring to Charlotte Mary’s nephew near the beginning since he morphed into a cousin for the remainder of the story. It did get a little old the amount of times Terry had to go or had something else to do, too. As stated, the story itself was a pleasant surprise as it was so unexpected and now I will read more by this author for sure.
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