The Anniversary

 

If you’re looking for an unputdownable read, look no further than Laura Marshall’s The Anniversary. Centring her story around a spree of eleven murders, twenty-five years on, Laura uses a tight-knit community to explore motherhood, memory and murder in this smart, twisty suspense. Cassie Colman, daughter of the final victim, realises her mother holds a vital clue to the killings – but her mother is losing her memory, so it’s up to Cassie to solve the mystery after all these years . . .

Laura has a talent for creating living, breathing characters and putting them in impossible situations. And The Anniversary doesn’t just deliver brilliant twists and turns, but also an emotional edge that will make this book stay with you long after the final, breathtaking reveal.

Tilda McDonald