After the love of her life gets sent to prison, still claiming his innocence, Annie doesn't hear from him for ten years. She settled for a comfortable and safe marriage with older man, William, and lives a rich, yet dull life with her young daughter. William Howarth is chief of police in their small South Yorkshire village and now in 1987, the tensions in this mining town are high as the workers are striking, protesting the possible closing of the mines. When Annie's former love Tom returns and reconnects with her, still proclaiming his innocence, she believes him...until a woman is found murdered on the moors. A woman that looks remarkably like Annie.
While I felt bad for Annie and Tom, separated for all those years, I didn't really like to read about her sneaking around on William. Seemingly a really good man, though unemotional, her only objection to him seemed to be that he was so much older, which she obviously knew before they married. This was just an ok read for me, not even about the mystery of the dead girls, but focused more on Annie's affair. The plot pretty much followed exactly what I expected with no surprises.
I received an advance reader copy of this book. The views and opinions expressed in this review are completely my own and given voluntarily
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