Audrey works as a school counsellor in the town of Franklin, as well as volunteering with the local Search and Rescue Service. She is strongly motivated to help find missing people because years ago, when they were teenagers, her best friend, Janie, disappeared.
The SAR team think of Audrey as some kind of lucky charm because she often gets a strong feeling that they are in the right place to start looking, and she is usually right. When as part of a search she and Len, her police deputy friend, wander on to private land owned by the Hills, Franklin’s most prominent family, Audrey’s intuition kicks in and she knows there is something there that she needs to know more about. She knew the Hills siblings when they were all teenagers and decides to reacquaint herself with them.
As well as all the twists and turns about who knew what, who did what, and who is who, there is also a local legend about a witch called Jenny Red Hands who exacts vengeance on men who have harmed women and whose hands are blood-stained.
This is a good psychological thriller, and Audrey is a nicely complex heroine. I’m hoping there may be further books about Audrey and her big, beautiful dog, Barry.
Published by Pan Macmillan
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