No one saw it happen.

You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. 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.

Everyone is lying.

By the time you get to the next stop, you’ve convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren’t two children waiting for you on the platform. There’s only one.

Someone is to blame.

Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find…

My Review

I’m exhausted after reading this book! It literally races along at breakneck speed, jumping from the ‘now’, back to the last few days and then fifteen years earlier.

Sive and Aaron and their three children live and work in Dublin, but they are going to London for a university reunion with Aaron’s old mates. There’s Scott the pilot, serious-slightly-boring Maggie, dopey Dave and Nita – Nita, a social media influencer with 45,000 followers, who just happens to be the sister of Yasmin, who was engaged to Aaron before she died in a fire at the age of 26. They all lived in a house in Stratford (in London not Shakespeare’s birthplace) belonging to Dave’s mother Carol. Keep up!

Then on that fateful day, Faye and Bea board the tube ahead of Sive and the doors close, leaving Sive and the baby on the platform. But it will be fine because Faye will look after Bea until the next stop where they will get off. Except when they arrive at the next stop there’s only Bea. Where is Faye? She would never leave Bea alone – which means something has happened and Sive is panicking.

Who can Sive trust? Her friends, her successful barrister husband (frankly I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him), his friends? Her friends – she doesn’t appear to have any apart from Jude, the hard-nosed journalist who works for the same paper. The police? Well at least them hopefully.

And then we board a speeding train, only this one is full of lies and red herrings, because no-one is telling the truth and Faye’s life may depend on it.

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole, the author and my fellow Pigeons for making this such an enjoyable read.

About the Author

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. Hide and Seek, her second thriller to be published in the UK and internationally, became an instant top ten bestseller.