When the truth lies

Author : Amy Gentry
Title : Good As Gone
Published : 26/07/2016
Pages : 289
Format  :  Kindle
Publisher : HQ

     Eight years ago, thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night. In the years since, her family have papered over the cracks of their grief – while hoping against hope that Julie is still arrive. And then, one night, the doorbell rings.

    This was a book recommended by a friend who knows of my love of thrillers with many twists and turns and a story on the darker side of things. The plot looked like an interesting one what happens when years after a child abduction said child rings your door bell. With lives slowly rebuilt will this shatter every thing back in to a million pieces. Not to mention what took place in those intervening years is it a story a parent will want to know the In's and outs of.

 

     Can a mothers love be truly unquestioning this is a point Anna is about to find out. She starts out with feelings of euphoria and relief at the sudden re-emergence of a daughter she long believed to be dead. This is a women who will be pushed to the limits of what she is prepared to believe in.  She exhibits the power of a lioness protecting her young. She has a strength and determination to get to the bottom of what took place over the past thirteen years. And while at times she will question every one around her the truth is what she most seeks no matter how disturbing it will get before the crash finally. Then To Julie how many story's can make up a single person before they burst. This is someone who holds a lot of guilt and feelings of shame inside her. Can so many pieces be put back together to make a whole person again. The people we meet thorough out this novel combine to create a spell around the read drawing us every deeper in to a dark web of deceit and abuse. Gantry has a way of bring out raw emotions from the character she presents and  using them to great effect.

 

     The author gives us a thriller which is full of tight twists and turns. The pace keeps up from the get go with us coastally questioning what happened in those intervening years.  She managed to weave a tale of abuse and degradation with one about beliefs and how what we think to be true can be twisted by other to suit there ends. Ever more so in the us of organised religion. having spent time in Texas I know first hand how powerful an institution it is. Every one has there own church that they pray to. But is it a source of good in some ones life or a destructive storm that can break down the most hardy of hurricane proofed houses. Gentry prove to be a expert at keeping many balls in the air at any one given moment. I spent as much time engrossed in the reading as I did trying to fit all the pieces of the complex puzzle back together. This is not one for people with an uneasy stomach the tale of abduction and child abuse are gut wrenching. At time you have to question how strong people must be to make it the light at the end of the tunnel. She also shows how the strong bonds of some family's can pulls us back together. This is one that you defiantly have to be on the ball for as its not a light read with so much going on. But at no point did I feel this was a bad thing I enjoy following all the strand of this particular web.

 

     This is a book with people I think that will stay with me for a while. The story echoing in my mind for some time after I finished it. With this she proved to me what a great author she is. It's a psychological thriller up there with many of the best from the past few years. I suggest you give it a go.