The past won’t let you go

I'm a little late to the party with this one by S J Watson, but the good news is that it's just arrived in paperback and is available in all the usual places. 

This was a real pageturner, and I read it over a few days. Alex, a film-maker is due to make a film in a small town by the sea - Blackwood Bay. However, as well as filming everyday life there, the bay has a history which involves girls going missing. Alex also has a history there and doesn't want to return, but then she receives a mystery postcard persuading her to return to her home town and her past.

Once she does, she becomes more and more embroiled in the missing girls' puzzle and what's going on now in the town. All looks fine on the surface and seems easily explained, but Blackwood Bay has a dark underbelly that is slowly revealed.

Alex is unsure who to trust and what to believe. And being back in the bay unravels some lost painful memories of her own.

It builds to a dramatic climax, and I could definitely see this being played out on the big screen. I think it would make an excellent movie.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book.