Sharron Bolton is the author of the bestselling Lacey Flint series. This book, Little Black Lies, is her first stand-alone thriller since 'Blood Harvest' which was short listed for the CWA Gold Dagger for crime novel of the year. In 2014 she was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library for her whole body.
'We were inseparable' so the front cover tells us and then 'until the day she killed my sons' is added under the title of Little Black Lies. Then what you could ask?
It is set in The Falklands Islands where in that small community everyone knows everything. The inside cover gives more more details telling us that it was a tragic accident in which the children died and then there are thoughts of how to avenge their deaths. It is not as simple as that. The complexities of changing relationships and then a child goes missing adds to the tension. And yet there is more when the impact the surrounding seas create and the recent history of that flawed Argentinian invasion.
My wife recommended it to me and I would do the same for everybody. I like the detail of where this book is set and Sharon Bolton has melded the physical aspects into the intricacies, with good reason, of the main story and the other personal stories that she has included. There is a cleverness here and that ensures that the reader is held on to what she is saying.
The number of personal relationships add so much to the storytelling and their importance is revealed as it is told. She uses the first person to make it more poignant, real and human.
It is very intense added to which there is the outcomes of the missing.
A last page enthralls me. It makes me wonder; leaves me with something to think about.
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