Coming To Find You | Book Review
This book was gifted to me by Doubleday Canada, but all opinions are my own
I finished this book just before Christmas, and it was probably one of my favourite books of 2023. I was expecting a psychological thriller, but this book was SO much more than that. As soon as I finished it, I took it to my nan so she could read it. It was my first book by Jane Corry, but it definitely won’t be my last.
PLOT (FROM THE Penguin Random House WEBSITE)
A heart-stopping psychological thriller about a woman running from the aftermath of a gruesome family tragedy--and also from the truth about her part in it. For fans of Gillian McAllister's Wrong Place Wrong Time and The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell.
You can run away from your life . . . but you can't hide from murder.
Nancy's mother and stepfather have been brutally killed. After a trial that gripped the nation, her stepbrother has been convicted of the double murder. But the end of the trial is just the beginning of a new nightmare for Nancy: the press is rabid, certain that she is hiding something. Certain that she knows more that she's telling about that night at the farmhouse . . .
Determined to disappear, Nancy flees to the seaside in Devon, to Tall Chimneys, her grandmother's secluded inn--a place that holds many dark wartime secrets.
Then someone sends her a letter. They know the truth about the night Nancy's mother and stepfather were murdered. They know she's been lying. And they promise to come find her. Because they have nothing to lose.
DISCUSSION (possible spoilers)
Nancy’s mother and stepfather have just been murdered by her stepbrother, and she is fleeing from the press who are desperate to hear her side of the story. She flees to her family’s vacation house that was given to her grandmother by her best friend for a reason unknown to Nancy. Nancy has mixed feelings about this house, because of something that happened there when she was younger.
This book switches POVs and timelines between Nancy, and her grandmother’s best friend Elizabeth during the second world war. Nancy has moved into her family’s vacation house, Tall Chimneys, and we get to learn a lot more about Tall Chimneys and it’s history from Elizabeth’s POV living there in the 40’s.
The more time she spends there, the less she is able to trust those around her. Someone told the press where she was, and someone is sending her threatening letters. To distract herself, Nancy takes a job at the local library, where she begins to learn more about her house, and it’s history. Someone went missing in this town in the 40s. Someone who had their own connection to Tall Chimneys.
I honestly liked Elizabeth’s timeline a bit more than Nancy’s, and found her story more compelling. I wish Nancy’s story was a bit stonger, but it was entertaining and this book was still one I couldn’t put down. I love books that have a connection between past and present, and this one delivered.
If you love thrillers with a great storyline, and deep characters, this book is for you.