"An absolute belter, read-in-one-sitting, can't put it down, most thrilling of thrillers with jaw-dropping moments galore. A dozen to be exact. And each time my chin hit the floor."
If you're looking for your next book fix, stop right now and read Twelve Secrets. Twenty years ago Ben Harper's world was turned upside down when his older brother Nick and best friend are murdered by two school friends. Ten years later he lost his mother and the story rocked the little town and the whole country.
Now an award-winning investigative journalist his boss asks him to relive his traumas on the tenth anniversary of his mother's death. Ben has a decision to make. Does he want to go there? What will he find? Will be be able to write this story?
Set in fictional town of Haddley, based on Gold's hometown of Putney, Twelve Secrets is a cracking psychological thriller. When another murder brings it all back to haunt the idyllic town we see how secrets are a dangerous thing and the book grabs you in a vice like grip as you uncover them all.
This is an assured debut, the start of a series and we can't wait to read more of Ben Harper. Bring it on, Gold!
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Twelve Secrets was written by Robert Gold and published by Little, Brown an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Twelve Secrets has 439 pages
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