Killing The Girl By Elizabeth Hill

‘Killing The Girl’ is the latest book by Elizabeth Hill.

For over forty years Carol Cage has been living as a recluse in her mansion, Oaktree House. Fear is her constant companion. She’s been keeping a secret – and it’s about to be unearthed. When she receives a compulsory purchase order for her home, she knows that everyone is going to find out what she did to survive her darkest weeks in 1970. She writes her confession so that we can understand what happened because she wasn’t the only one living a lie. The events that turned her fairy-tale life into a living hell were not all they seemed. She’s determined not to pay for the mistakes of others; if she has to face justice, then they will too. Carol Cage has a terrible secret … and she’s about to exact retribution on
everyone who had abandoned her.

This is Catherine’s first book and it’s a story that evokes so many feelings in this domestic thriller.

The story is set over many decades and is seen solely through the narrative of Carol. We meet Carol in the present time admitting to a murder and then travels back to the 1960’s when she’s an outspoken and bold teenager with the world at her feet. But Frankie comes into her life and turns her head with his looks and charms and she falls deeply for him and every time he breaks her heart, she falls even more for him and can’t see to detach herself from him even though he turns out to be a bad person. But as she has to leave her home due to inherited home being demolished, she has to face up to her past.

The book is a story of redemption and grief and follows Carol Cage from her teenage years, when she’s growing up with a sexual curiosity and Frankie is the object of that curiosity. Initially, I didn’t warm to Carol, I find her cocky and overly confident but slowly begin to like brash manner and her take no crap attitude, particularly with Frankie. But as the story develops, she is so overcome with love for Frankie that she chooses to ignore his infidelity and lies.

A story that takes place over decades and sees an older woman who’s teenage self has never fully gone away. This book is a complex and dramatic debut that really hooked me in. A story about grief, jealousy and putting old ghosts to rest, ‘Killing The Girl’ is a thought provoking story about obsession and hidden secrets.

You can buy ‘Killing The Girl’ from Amazon