![]() ![]() And then, painfully and honestly, there’s the world of DS Mairead MacCullagh, who might be exactly the right woman for the job, but is also trying to ignore the miscarriage she might be in the middle of. There’s a nightmarish, fairytale quality to Sam Lloyd’s debut thriller, which switches between timelines and perspectives: the horrors Elissa’s mother is going through the strange life Elijah leads the brilliantly sharp mind of Elissa as she weighs up her options for escape. He’s never had a proper friend, and now that he’s stumbled upon Elissa, he’s reluctant to let her go. Here she is found by Elijah, 12, who has always lived in the woods. She has been kidnapped from outside the chess tournament she was competing in, and is being kept in a cellar beneath the woods. ![]()
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