Friend Request
What would you do if you
received a Friend Request on Facebook from someone you believed had been dead
for years?
When it happens to Louise it
sets in train a series of events that put her and others in serious danger. At
first she has no idea if the 'Maria' who has sent her a friend request is
genuine or not, so she starts to track down other friends from the time in order
to attempt to piece together what is going on.
The present day narrative is
interspersed with flashbacks to Louise's schooldays in the 1980s and the past
and present collide when Louise decides to attend a school reunion and comes
face to face with people who knew Maria in the past. But who has organised the
reunion and why?
As well as being a gripping
thriller, I found Friend Request quite a poignant story as well. It deals with
the tensions and jealousies between school girls and the ways in which that can
spill over into adult life really well, and also depicts Louise's broken
marriage from her childhood sweetheart Sam, and her relationship with her young
son in a touching way.
Through many twists and
turns the tension doesn't let up and ultimately the truth of what happened back
then, and what is happening now is revealed in an explosive ending.
I received a review copy of
this book from the publishers via Netgalley.
You can find out more here.
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