As my son looks at me, his eyes pleading for help, all I can think in that moment is that I will do whatever it takes to protect him. A young girl’s lifeless body lies on the ground and my heart breaks when I realise I’m already too late to save her.
Our family will never be the same again.
I know I should call for help. But looking towards the phone table I see an old picture of the children playing in the garden. Our children and hers. We used to be so close, I thought our families would be together for a lifetime. But in a moment of rage, the life I imagined has been snatched away.
But if I’m honest, I’ve been kidding myself about how perfect our lives were.
I’m a mother. I should be able to keep my children safe. But what I see in front of me cannot be denied. No one else is here. My son’s guilty.
How far will I go to protect him?
A completely gripping and pulse-pounding psychological thriller that will have you turning the pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of The Wife Between Us, The Girl on the Train and anything by Shari Lapena.
Victoria Jenkins lives with her husband and daughters in South Wales, where her bestselling series of crime novels featuring Detectives King and Lane is based. The first in the series, The Girls in the Water is a top 5 US kindle bestseller. She has an MA in Creative and Media Writing from the University of Wales, Swansea.
Since the King and Lane series, she has written ten standalone psychological thrillers.
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OMG!! Victoria Jenkins' The Mother’s Phone Call was like reading a manuscript for the next huge prime time soap opera to hit the big tv network! The one that everyone will be talking about at the water cooler the next day!! Ohh this one was fast paced, addicting, binge readable, and when I say drama filled oh I mean it!! If that isn’t enough then she puts more wicked curve balls into the mix to keep you on your toes. Yes, you will want to add this to your tbr list for this year.
Victoria starts off with a prologue that left me speechless! Yes, I am speechless! It is a phone call no mother in their right mind would ever want to make!!! I am not a Mom but had that been my Nephew I would not be able to hold it together! It is prologues like this that hook you into the story that make me want to read further and find out more.
My heart ached because Alice wanted so badly to get into her dream school of fashion and design and did everything in her power to make it happen. However, she sadly didn’t get accepted. In the same token I too would have been livid that Freya who had no interest whatsoever in fashion applied and got in.
Kids can be so cruel and Alice learns this lesson all too well with one scene in this book! I would have been so embarrassed and as mad as she had been!! What they did was totally uncalled for!!
What I found twisted was Freya, a teenager hitting on Alice’s Dad of all people!
The more you read this book, the twists and turns get darker until the big revelation. It is a must read for sure!
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