Keep Him Close
ONE SON LIED. ONE SON DIED.
Alice’s son is dead. Indigo’s son is accused of murder.
Indigo is determined to prove her beloved Kane is innocent. Searching for evidence, she is helped by a kind stranger who takes an interest in her situation. Little does she know that her new friend has her own agenda.
Alice can’t tell Indigo who she really is. She wants to understand why her son was killed – and she needs to make sure that Indigo’s efforts to free Kane don’t put her remaining family at risk. But how long will it take for Indigo to discover her identity? And what other secrets will come out as she digs deeper?
No one knows a son like his mother. But neither Alice nor Indigo know the whole truth about their boys, and what happened between them on that fateful night.
The story follows what happens when Lou Durand is found dead at the bottom of a car park, either having fallen, jumped or been pushed.
The narrative is mainly between Alice, the mother of Lou and Indigo the mother of Kane. Again it is one of those novels that it can be confusing as to who is telling the story.
There are also a few things in the book that aren't quite right. I didn't think the Police would turn up late at night to Alice's house to inform her of her son's death without a woman officer present.
I couldn't see Kane being put in Long Lartin which is a high security prison, he was on remand and a young offender. If he had to be moved from Bristol then he would more likely have gone to Hewell.
Maybe I'm being pedantic but if you are going to name real prisons, make sure they are ones that the person who is on remand would be placed.
I wasn't quite sure about the relationship between Alice and Indigo or Indigos lack of IT skills but the characterisation was quite good, a common bond over the situation they were in. Some of the other characters were just padding and didn't really add much to the story.
Overall an easy read with a few unexpected twists and turns.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.