With Winter Comes Darkness
Robbi Neal
Reviewed by Helen
Will a twist of fate bring two people together, they have never met but both have lost something that changes their lives can they bring each other back to a normal life?
It is 1975 in Ballarat and Alice is happily married to Liam and they have two children seven year old Max and six year old Pippa life is good Liam is a solicitor and Alice is a journalist at the local paper, but on a cold wet night her life will change forever when there is a terrible accident and she loses one of her children and then she finds out that her marriage was not as good as she thought, her life as she knows it topples over.
Across the other side of town a man is found brutally murdered on the property of the local popular math’s teacher Ellery, he rings police but he is the only one there covered in blood and soon finds himself in remand charged with murder but Ellery cannot remember anything about what happened.
Alice is convinced to get back to work by her boss and is told to do some stories about the murder and that means going to meet Ellery and it soon becomes apparent that there is some sort of pull between them, there are questions that each of them ask and an agreement is made, as the months go on the bond grows, will they become friends or even more than friends in this psychological suspense?
This was the first of Robbi Neal’s books I have read and it made for compelling reading for me, I had to get to end and find out what was going to happen to all of the characters in the story, would they get what I think they deserved, maybe not, but the ending was so good, not what I expected but good just the same, will light shine through the darkness?
I do highly recommend this one, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
It is 1975 in Ballarat and Alice is happily married to Liam and they have two children seven year old Max and six year old Pippa life is good Liam is a solicitor and Alice is a journalist at the local paper, but on a cold wet night her life will change forever when there is a terrible accident and she loses one of her children and then she finds out that her marriage was not as good as she thought, her life as she knows it topples over.
Across the other side of town a man is found brutally murdered on the property of the local popular math’s teacher Ellery, he rings police but he is the only one there covered in blood and soon finds himself in remand charged with murder but Ellery cannot remember anything about what happened.
Alice is convinced to get back to work by her boss and is told to do some stories about the murder and that means going to meet Ellery and it soon becomes apparent that there is some sort of pull between them, there are questions that each of them ask and an agreement is made, as the months go on the bond grows, will they become friends or even more than friends in this psychological suspense?
This was the first of Robbi Neal’s books I have read and it made for compelling reading for me, I had to get to end and find out what was going to happen to all of the characters in the story, would they get what I think they deserved, maybe not, but the ending was so good, not what I expected but good just the same, will light shine through the darkness?
I do highly recommend this one, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
4 stars
May 1, 2024 by HQ Fiction
