You can change your name. Change your life. But someone knows exactly who you are.

Twenty years ago, Mason Tucker was tried and convicted as the teenager who helped lure young boys to the serial killer known as the Pied Piper of Peasedale. After serving his twenty-year sentence, Mason is freed and hopes to remain invisible while he rebuilds his life as an adult, hoping to become a man he can be proud of. A new town, a new flat, a new job and a new purpose.

But living with secrets is challenging, and protecting his anonymity, the woman who stood beside him, and her child becomes impossible when the past pushes back. Hard. Within days of his release, Mason suspects he’s being stalked. He’s threatened and twice attacked. 

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He never imagined being outside would be more dangerous than being in prison. The police aren’t an option. One headline will destroy him.

Someone wants him punished, not redeemed, and as danger closes in, you will never suspect where the next threat comes from.

My Review

I think my only issue with the third book in the series is that it is written entirely from the point of view of Mason Tucker, known ‘as the teenager who helped lure young boys to the serial killer known as the Pied Piper of Peasedale’. Initially he is drawn in because the killer threatens to kill his mum if he doesn’t help him procure his victims. But the question is how far would you go to protect someone?

In Mason’s position, I think most people – even a child – would go straight to their mum, tell her what’s going on, and go together to the police. Report the weirdo and ask for protection. But then Mason is different and it started with the rabbit.

So is he fundamentally evil? If you’ve read The Other Mother you will know what happened to his sister Lily. His behaviour then was already not normal.

I have to say I can’t warm to him or forgive him. And I don’t like Shiv either. I think she is manipulative. Having married, had a son Pip, separated from her husband, and waited 20 years for Mason to be released from prison, you would think she would want to distance herself from all of it for the sake of her son. He’s also not very nice, but who can blame him.

And then there’s neighbour Kenny. Yes, he has an alcoholic, useless mother, and dreadful stepfather who beats him, but the last thing Mason should do is befriend a teenage boy, not with his history.

But I really enjoyed the book, in spite of everything I’ve just said. It’s been a great series and I would read another chapter, but I’m not sure there is anyone left!

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner, their Great Dane and the children that have yet to fly the nest. 

In her early forties Heidi completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Winchester University. She entered the course hoping she would become a children’s fantasy writer and left with a burning desire to write contemporary mysteries and thrillers. Heidi wanted to put relatable people in extraordinary situations, challenge them, push them to their limits and watch them fight for their sanity.

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