Did You See Melody?
I loved this book. It has
everything. A brilliant setting. An inexplicable mystery. And great characters.
When Cara Burrows decides
she needs to escape from her family she ends up at the very swish Swallowtail
resort in Arizona. She arrives in a state of exhaustion just wanting to
collapse into her hotel room bed and sleep. But there's a problem. When she
gets to her allocated room and opens the door, two people are already in there.
Cara becomes certain that
one of the occupants of the room is Melody Chapa, who was supposedly murdered
several years earlier and whose parents are in jail for the crime.
The story explores Cara's
experiences from that moment on as her discovery leads her into danger. This
part of the narrative is intercut with accounts from the past that deal with
Melody's early life and her abduction and murder. There's some interesting
stuff here about how the aftermath of her disappearance is dealt with by the
authorities and the US tendency towards trial by television.
As we move towards
finding out the truth about Melody, Cara must ensure her own safety and become
reunited with the family she so recently wanted to get away from.
The plot is complex, original
and entertaining and the ending was so unexpected that I had to go back and
read the last few pages again.
Highly recommended.
I received a review copy of
this book from the publisher via Netgalley.
You can find out more here.
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