When ghosts of the past of a dear one come chasing you…

Synopsis

A child lies in an unmarked grave, another missing without a trace.

Dora’s life is a mess. Her husband has left her for another woman, she can’t pay the bills, and most days she doesn’t bother to get dressed. She feels life couldn’t get any worse, then her oldest friend, Eddie, is murdered. Before Eddie died he told Dora a shocking secret. A secret she wishes she didn’t know. She is not the only one who knows Eddie secret. Someone wants Eddie silenced for good and they are coming after Dora.

As Dora uncovers Eddie’s past she learns of a place called Blue Hollow where an unimaginable crime took place. Now Dora knows the truth of what happened there. Why an innocent man rots in jail. The secret has already taken four lives. She has a choice, bury the past with Eddie or become the next victim of Blue Hollow.

My review

Dora is finding herself a single woman again. her husband left her for another woman, and now she is struggling to pay the bills and find a reason to get properly dressed.
When her friend Eddie is murdered, she is devastated. Also because he just told her a shocking secret. And there are more secrets to be unfolded, with the help of several tapes he has put in different places.

Dora wants to find all the tapes, but soon she discovers that there are other people who would do anything to keep the secret hidden.
Now she is trying to find out the truth of what happened in Blue Hollow without getting murdered herself…

I found this a very creepy story… Dora is struggling after her husband left her and then she finds herself chased by people she doesn’t even knew of!
We are experiencing the story by Dora her ‘adventures’. And as she is trying to find the tapes Eddie left her, we are allowed to listen to those same tapes when Dora hears them for the first time.

This gives us the truth that is just terrible. Slowly we get to know what Eddie and his friends had to endure when they were younger. And we also see that despite the gruesome things they went through, they became real friends and their friendship is still lasting.

Reading about the past, gave me the chills, because imagining that those things really happened and still happen, is something it’s hard to grasp. But unfortunately, the reality shows us that there are terrible people still walking around. And that even this is a fictional story, some of it is just too realistic…

But what I liked about is, is that Dora is becoming more determined to find out what happened so many years ago and is not letting people to get away with it. Initially she finds it hard to believe it all, which is understandable, but when she realizes who is involved and what is still going on, she wants the truth out.
And despite the ugly things happening, I enjoyed reading about the banter Dora has with Dmitri. And also the kindness of those who knew Eddie.
These moment made me smile a little bit, even if the story is not something to smile or laugh about.

Thanks to the people Dora meets during her ‘quest’, she becomes stronger and more resolute. At first she was a little house mouse but slowly she becomes a real fighter. Both literally as figuratively!

This was a real sitting on the edge of my seat story, and the while time I was wondering what happened, what was happening and what would happen in the future! There were several twists I did not see coming and in the end I enjoyed reading it!