Hide and Seek: The unmissable new crime thriller from the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of All Her Fault

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Hide and Seek: The unmissable new crime thriller from the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of All Her Fault

Hide and Seek: The unmissable new crime thriller from the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of All Her Fault

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I loved this book! As I mentioned on my stories, I started reading it on the plane home from Tenerife. As it was an evening flight I had a little doze and had a dream involving ALL of the characters in the book! Completely invested in the storyline, and I had only just started it! However, my irrational fears aside, no one does thrillers quite as well as Andrea Mara. I've loved all her other books (some only slightly more than others) so when I got an advance copy from Netgalley I started reading straight away. The story revolves around the disappearance of 3 year old Lily Murphy and the connection it has to Joanna Stedman who now lives in her house. Lily was never found and Joanna believes she knows more about this case than most because Joanna has a whole closet full of secrets herself. When Johanna and her family move into her new home, she's sure they've found her forever home. Until she learns about it's dark past: thirty years ago, it was home to three year old Lily Murph, who disappeared during a game of hide-and-seek, and never seen again. Joanna is determined to find out all she can about the little girls disappearance and the inhabitants of the close-knit neighbourhood are all eager to speculate. But the more she learns, the closer she's drawn towards her own dark family secrets - secrets she's spent years trying to hide. Because Joanna thinks she knows what really happened to Lily - and if the truth gets out, it might be her undoing...

It’s true. Sometimes, when you’re starting out, it’s tempting to look at the full bookshelves in the shops and think there’s no point, there’s no chance. But they do need new books. Bookshops need them, publishers need them, readers need them. So if you feel you’d like to write a book, go for it.Andrea Mara is a Sunday Times and Irish Times top ten bestselling author, and has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including Irish Crime Novel of the Year. She lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her husband and three young children, and also runs multi-award-winning parent and lifestyle blog, OfficeMum.ie. I raced through this at high speed, enjoying the ride through Andrea's twists and turns.' * Observer * Fast forward to 2018 and Joanna Stedman and her family move into their forever home. It seems perfect - until Joanna discovers that it was once the home of Lily Murphy. As Joanna delves further into the child’s disappearance, revelations and secrets emerge - including Joanna’s own. Does she play a part in this long forgotten mystery?

Right now I’m busy editing next year’s book, No One Saw A Thing. It’s about a family on holidays in London, rushing through a Tube station one Monday morning. Two children, age six and two, get on the Tube but the doors close before their mother can get on. When she arrives at the next station, only one of her children is there. (This book is also based on a real experience, about a time when I was a child on holidays in London and my sister and I got on the Tube without our parents!) I found myself on the edge of my seat with Joanna’s anxiety and her fear about being responsible for Lily’s death. She appears to be a good person, but as her lies surface, I found myself curious about what she was hiding. This poor woman had such a bad start in life I understand why she chose to rather lie about her past – I might have done the same. She gained my respect when she decided not to destroy lives with a truth best left unknown. The game of hide and seek is over, everyone has gone home, but little Lily Murphy hasn't been found. Her parents search the woods and tell themselves that the worst hasn't happened - but deep down they know this peaceful Dublin suburb will never be the same again. Jumping between time periods, Mara seamlessly ties the various timelines of the story together perfectly. She isn’t afraid to delve into some very dark topics in her books and Hide and Seek is no exception. Wow, I absolutely bloody loved this extremely well-written, cleverly plotted mystery/thriller that had me hooked in and captivated from the spine-chilling opening sentence right through to the satisfying concluding dash of poetic justice.'It’s 1985 and the game of Hide and Seek is over. But where is 3 year old Lily Murphy? Despite an extensive search the little girl is never seen again. As readers, we are aware of 'the twist' in psychological thrillers. As a writer, do you feel under pressure to come up with something bigger and more 'twisty' each time? Andrea's latest book, Hide and Seek, was published by Bantam Press in August 2022. You can find Hide and Seek and all Andrea's books on our catalogue. Andrea Mara writes twisty turny domestic thrillers like no other and her latest one, Hide and Seek, is out in August. Reading this book you are dropped into the tangled lives of the people in this community. You join Joanna on her hunt for the truth and see how rumours destroyed lives. Everyone claims to know their neighbours, but the truth is buried somewhere among the rumours and suspicion. You often wonder if the truth will ever surface.

Joanna becomes all-consumed by finding out what happened to the little girl because of a secret she is hiding. The story progresses seamlessly between her narrative in 2018 and an omnipresent narrator in 1985. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors slide shut and the train moves away, leaving you behind. June 2018: Joanna Murphy (mother of 3) moves into a new house in the SoCoDu suburbs, only to learn that it was the home of Lily Murphy before she disappeared. When Joanna sees a photograph of Lily, her own past resurfaces, and in an attempt to uncover the sense of familiarity and the link between her own past and Lily's, Joanna begins to pull at the threads of the close-knit community. What she discovers makes for a twisty, thrilling and riveting read!I think Andrea's talent in creating such an extreme reaction in her readers is in one part due to how she writes so fluidly and realistically. While there may be layers upon layers of twists imbedded within the plotline at no point do her words feel over written, the story always feels far too real and plausible. There are so many relatable snippets that you are immersed into a world you recognise and feel comfortable in, until those stark, jarring moments when you're not.

Next-level domestic suspense - even the twists have twists. I loved it - Andrea Mara is a star.' Lee Child As usual a brilliantly conceived and tautly plotted thriller from an author at the top of her game. Very highly recommended to anyone who loves thrillers and who has or hasn't read Andrea's previous books. I love a dual timeline; the 80’s irish suburb along with the attitudes of the time felt very familiar to me, but equally the modern day setting felt realistic too. Joanna has moved into a new home with her husband and three children in a mature housing estate in suburban Dublin. Her sense of contentment at finding their "forever home" soon subsides when a new neighbour tells her that her home once belonged to the family of Lily Murphy, a three-year-old who went missing in the mid-80s while playing a game of Hide and Seek. Lily was never found and the peaceful suburb was forever changed.

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