Kerry Hammond is here to review a new-to-her author whose latest book had her mesmerized.
Cass Green is the author of the 2017 hit The Woman Next Door
and has also written several young adult novels. Her latest book, In a Cottage in
a Wood, was released in Trade Paperback on January 23 by Harper Collins. This
was my first read by this author and I loved every minute of it.
Neve Carey’s life isn’t quite on track. She’s living with
her sister and brother-in-law, doesn’t really love her job, and has recently
broken up with her boyfriend but can’t seem to get past it. One night, as she’s
heading home after a night out at a club, she comes across a young woman in a
bridge. She’s annoyed at the chance encounter and then horrified as she sees
the woman jump to her death. Afterwards she finds out that the woman has somehow
left her a cottage in Cornwall. Neve sees it as a way to escape her downward
spiraling life and start over. But when she arrives it’s nothing like the idyllic
country cottage she imagined. Instead it’s a dark, unwelcoming building with
bars on the windows and strange happenings in the woods. Neve is torn between getting
away from the depressing place and staying long enough to figure out what is
going on and why the woman on the bridge took her own life.
I was mesmerized by Neve’s story and I rarely get so
invested in a character when I read a thriller. I watched her grow as a person
as the book progressed, and when I turned the final page I found myself hoping that
she would make it and get her life back on track. Green is a master storyteller
and I clearly got lost in her tale. I was entertained until the very last page
and really enjoyed this book. Highly recommended.
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