What She Saw Last Night
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By Mason Cross
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No one will believe … WHAT SHE SAW LAST NIGHT.
Jenny Bowen is going home. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper, all she wants to do is forget about her upcoming divorce and relax on the ten-hour journey through the night.
In her search for her cabin, Jenny helps a panicked woman with a young girl she assumes to be her daughter. Then she finds her compartment and falls straight to sleep.
Waking in the night, Jenny discovers the woman dead in her cabin … but there’s no sign of the little girl. The train company have no record of a child being booked on the train, and CCTV shows the dead woman boarding alone.
The police don’t believe Jenny, and soon she tries to put the incident out of her head and tells herself that everyone else is right: she must have imagined the little girl.
But deep down, she knows that isn’t the truth.
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A standalone novel by a Scottish author who also writes thrillers under the name of Mason Cross. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper train, Jenny Bowen helps a mother and her young daughter into their compartment. The next day the woman is found dead in the compartment but there’s no trace of the little girl - or that she's even been there. The train company doesn’t have a record of a booking for child and the police are sceptical that she even exists. As the police investigation founders, Jenny tries to work out what happened. Although I found the story implausible in places I thought it was totally gripping and enjoyed reading it. I'll definitely be looking out for more books by this author and have been loaned one of his Carter Blake thrillers to try. I hope it's as good as this!
Review by Mo, Oundle Crime
