It was a tragic accident. Wasn’t it? A private investigator returning to the hometown he fled years ago becomes entangled in the disappearance of two teenage girls in this stunning literary crime thriller.
Reid left the small town of Manson a decade ago, promising his former Chief of Police boss he’d never return. He made a new life in the city, became a PI and turned his back on his old life for good.
Now an insurance firm has offered him good money to look into a suspicious car crash, and he finds himself back in the place he grew up – home to his complicated family history, a scarring relationship breakdown and a very public career-ending incident.
As Reid’s investigation unfolds, nothing is as it seems: rumours are swirling about the well-liked young woman who crashed the car, killing her professor husband, and there are whispers about a second local student who has just disappeared.
As Reid veers off course from the job he has been paid to do, will he find himself in the dangerous position of taking on the town again?
J.P. Pomare is an award-winning crime writer whose previous novels include bestsellers Call Me Evie, In the Clearing, Tell Me Lies and The Last Guests. Our readers love him, and for good reason – he consistently delivers smart, tightly plotted mysteries that never fail to satisfy. Now he returns with his fifth novel, The Wrong Woman, and it definitely doesn’t disappoint. This is a brilliantly crafted, fast-paced thriller, packed with enough twists and turns to leave your head spinning.
The novel adopts dual timelines, following PI Reid as he returns to town to investigate the car crash and Eshana Stiles, wife of Oliver Reid, who was killed in the crash. The novel follows Eshana in the years prior to the crash when she first met and began a scandalous affair with Oliver, to the rocky road their marriage heads down, and finally post-crash when Eshana is left piecing together what happened and the man her husband truly is. Nothing is as it seems, and Pomare expertly weaves each of these threads together, building to a gripping and unforgettable end.
If you’re after a compelling and unpredictable mystery that will leave you hanging until the very last page, The Wrong Woman is the perfect read for you.
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