The One Who Fell by Kerry WilkinsonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
3⭐
Genre ~ cozy mystery
Series ~ A Whitecliff Bay Mystery, #1
Publication date ~ April 17, 2023
Page Count ~ 302
Audio length ~ 7 hours 51 minutes
Narrator ~ Helen Keeley ~ a fine job
POV ~ single 3rd
Featuring ~ amateur sleuthing, suicide references, murder accusations
I can’t say the book excited me, but it was a quick and easy cozy mystery that follows Millie as she investigates Ingrid’s claim that she saw a girl being pushed off a roof. There’s also the fact that there’s a rumor floating around still a year later that Millie killed her own parents. Let’s not leave out that there’s been some black panther sightings to keep the book moving along. Although it was quick in time, it was quite slow in parts.
Overall, fine, but I’m not super big on cozy mysteries, so it’s tbd if I’ll continue on with the series.
*Thanks to the author, Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for the audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Book blurb:
In the seaside town of Whitecliff, everyone looks out for each other. Everyone knows your name. And everyone knows your secrets…
Moonlight falls on the figure of the girl standing on the red-tiled roof. Her white dress and blonde hair flutter in the freezing night wind. And suddenly – she is gone.
Volunteering at the local nursing home is Millie Westlake’s one escape from the rumours that swirl around Whitecliff about her past. But speaking with elderly resident, Ingrid, as they play board games, Millie gets chills at her strange story about a young girl being pushed from a roof, somewhere across the valley…
Everybody thinks Ingrid is confused: but Millie knows how it feels to not be believed. Her parents died a year ago, and the residents of Whitecliff – such a quiet place, other than crashing waves and cawing seagulls – are convinced Millie killed them.
Desperately searching for evidence to find the girl Ingrid saw, a broken roof tile could prove Ingrid was telling the truth. But when strange footprints appear in Millie’s garden, she’s certain someone out there is watching.
Have Ingrid and Millie stumbled across something terribly dangerous? And with the town against her, will Millie have to face up to her own secrets to solve the mystery before it becomes deadly?
An utterly compelling, character-driven mystery by bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson, perfect for fans of Faith Martin, Mary Burton and LJ Ross.
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