Don’t Turn Around By Amanda Brooke

‘Don’t Turn Around’ is the latest book by Amanda Brooke and it’s a thrilling and gripping story that really hooks the reader in.

Ten years ago, Jen’s cousin Meg killed herself after failing to escape an abusive relationship. Now, Meg’s ex is back and Jen’s domestic abuse helpline has started getting frightening calls from a girl who knows things about Meg – details that only the dead girl or the man who hurt her could have known. As Jen starts to uncover the past, someone is determined to stop her. Can she save this young woman from Meg’s fate? Or is history about to repeat itself?

The story is seen through the perspective of Jen and her aunt Ruth, who both never fully recovered from Ruth’s daughter’s suicide, Meg. Both are adamant that there is more to Meg’s death than meets the eye and now ten years later they are still fighting for the truth. To recognise Meg and other women who have been subject to domestic abuse, they set up the Megan McCoy Foundation, a helpline offering advice and one day they receive a call and are convinced that the woman is being abused by Lewis, the teenage boyfriend of Meg who they believe is responsible for Meg’s death. The story then follows both women as they try to rescue the woman as well as face up to old ghosts as Lewis reappears in their lives, after being gone for ten years.

This book is a dark and disturbing that does make for unsettling reading, particularly the flashbacks to Meg leading up to her taking her own life. Jen and Meg are best friends and Jen is in awe of her feisty cousin and could never believe that she would just give up and as long as she has breath in her body is determined to prove everyone wrong. But as Jen delves deeper in the past, she finds herself not only getting emotionally involved but also putting her life and others at risk.

Fast paced with tense scenes throughout, ‘Don’t Turn Around’ is a suspenseful tale about the search for justice and the truth and has a shocking ending, that will stay with you, long after you reached the final page.

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