The letters drop onto every doormat…
Lena just moved to Mandalay Close. She needed a new start, since her boyfriend cheated her out of the happy-ever-after she’d believed they were always going to share.
But on the day Lena moves in, letters begin to arrive for all her new neighbours. Letters that promise to expose everyone’s deepest, darkest secrets. Every house has received one – except for Lena’s.
Someone clearly wants to implicate her, to ruin her new life and turn everyone against her. She’s made an enemy, but who, and why? Everyone seems so nice, so trustworthy. So normal.
As more bad things happen and her life rapidly spins out of control, Lena finds herself unable to believe this is happening to her. After all, she’s not a bad person. Though she does have secrets of her own, secrets that she’s not willing to share with anyone…
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Review
The police is called in because of the poisoned pen letters people on the close are receiving. It seems all the neighbours have secrets and someone knows about them.
Every finger points in Lena’s direction, but is she the one to blame? And whilst the police investigates, there is something far worse happening and once again Lena seems to be the one in the middle…
I cannot decide whether I liked or disliked Lena. On the one hand she is kind and helpful, but on the other hand she can be very spiteful and a bit aggressive too.
I loved the skeleton of the book. Chapters told by different characters with their perspectives giving us the opportunity to see inside the heads of those people. This, combined with a good number of twists and turns makes this story an enjoyable one.
Did I expect this person to be the baddie? No, not at all. I had put my money on someone else. 🙂 Kudos to the author for fooling me. 😉 4 stars
Thank you
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About the author
Joanne Ryan lives in the south of England and has always loved writing. Her novels concentrate on the darker, secret side of the lives of seemingly ordinary people. She also writes under the pen name of Marina Johnson.
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Author Links
Instagram: @authorjoanneryan
Facebook: Joanne Ryan – Author
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Book Link
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQJJR28S/
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