As if the author just had to fill the word count for each page and couldn’t find anything better to say. She ran the UK's first MA in crime writing for five years, and regularly teaches and talks about writing. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. She’s also irresponsible in putting her children in danger at times, although she does cop to it eventually.

When I had read 50% of this book I was ready to give up, but then it did start to get interesting and I was fully immersed in the story that was unfolding but lo and behold the book had finished. One thing that did bother me a little was that Mary was a lawyer but did not seem to understand the law. Mary has two young children and is awake through the night, not remembering the last time she fully slept. And as the pair are drawn into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, the culprit appears to be even closer to home than they thought. Biography: Claire published her first novel in 2012, and has followed it up with many others in the crime fiction genre and also in women's fiction (writing as Eva Woods).When Mary goes outside to investigate, she runs into another neighbor, fellow insomniac, and investigative journalist, Tim. Meanwhile hubby Jack snores his way through slumber and oblivion as his exhausted wife sees to the children without an ounce of sleep.

I completely understand the bone-tired state that she operates in, having experienced it myself way back. Tim was a little more bearable though carried a ton of shameful guilt about his time in Syria and now suffers PTSD as a result. They learn that several other young women have disappeared in the area over several years but how are they connected? Mary a mother of two young children and Tim her neighbour think that they see someone being attacked in a flat across the road. One thing to know about these two, because it will be repeated incessantly for the first quarter of the book: They’re tired.Mary and Tim happen to meet in the park the next night, and confirm they both saw, or thought they saw, the same thing. They both appear to have witnessed a woman being savagely attached in a nearby house that is supposed to be empty as it is being renovated.

In ‘Mum of the Year’ fashion, Mary occasionally brings her nursing three-month old son and her continually screaming two-year-old daughter who either speaks Caveman “HOT, MUMMY! Unfortunately, this just didn't grab my attention in a meaningful way, so I ended up putting it down at 11%.A chilling story of two sleep deprived strangers coming together to find a missing person, not knowing whether they can trust their minds. This is a wickedly clever premise that features a mother of two (Mary) who is on maternity leave and of course like every mother needs a good night's Sleep. One sleepless night they both witness what appears to be an attack in one of their neighbor's windows.

You could easily criticize Mary for neglecting her children, but I thought it just added to character development. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I think Mary could be the lead in more books and I’d love to see how the author would continue to evolve her. Mary an exhausted lawyer on maternity leave teams up with Tim a journalist suffering from the effects of working in a war zone to try and investigate the missing case of Sam a local teenager. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

In a huge leap of faith they begin to work together to try to solve the case, even though the police are working on it. The book really entertains the reader with the who did it, did they actually do it premise and I will read more in future!