Behind Closed Doors - Susan Lewis

When fourteen-year-old Sophie Monroe suddenly vanishes one night, it looks at first as though she's run away from home.

Her computer and mobile phone have gone, and she's taken a bag full of clothes.

As the police investigation unfolds, a wealth of secrets from the surrounding community start coming to light. And it seems everyone has something to hide.

For Detective Sergeant Andrea Lawrence, the case is a painful reminder of the tragedy that tore her family apart over twenty years ago. She is convinced there is more to Sophie's disappearance than teenage rebellion.

But us the past clouding her judgement, preventing her from seeing a truth that neither she or Sophie's family would ever want to face?

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Sophie disappears after a family argument but is not reporting missing for almost a week.  DS Lawrence finds this a little odd. If one of her children went missing she would be on it a lot quicker than that, especially after what happened in her own family all those years ago.

CCTV does not reveal much and you are left wondering is she hiding out at a friends house. Has she got mixed up with the wrong type of people or has she been abducted. Or could even be something a lot closer to home.

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I have often seen Susan Lewis books on the bookshelf of the local supermarket or Waterstone but up until now hadn't read anything by this author.

For my birthday I was given a duo set of Susan Lewis books Behind Closed Doors and The Truth About You.  Seen as my birthday was in January and we are almost into June  I thought it was high time that I got to reading one of them.  I hadn't seen any reviews by anyone else so went into reading Behind Closed Doors with an unbiased view.

I did enjoy reading it. Susan Lewis description of how a 14 year old can sometimes behave (thankfully my own daughter who is now 21 was a pretty good teenager) was very true. How many times did we tell our parents life wasn't fare and how could they possibly understand anything when they were so old.  The way in which she involves DS Lawrence's background and home life makes the story all the more appealing.  

It must have been pretty good as I read over the bank holiday weekend and I did have other things to do apart from have a book in my hand.

Definitely worth considering as a holiday read as we will soon be upon that season.

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For my next book I have chosen a memoir written by Denis Avey. 

It has taken Denis Avey seventy years to write his account of  his time during the second world war and how he managed to get into Auschwitz. 

I had originally picked this one up from the charity book shelf at our local Tesco's (currently collecting for Diabetes UK)  for my FiL who has a keen interest in the military, but having got it home I decided that may be I should read it before popping it in the post. 

As you can see by my book mark I am only a part way into this one and not quite at the point where he is taken POW by the Germans but already I am thinking I am going to need the tissue box to hand. 

Happy reading one & all.

Mx