What Lies in the Woods, Kate Alice Marshall

Ooh, this is a good thriller. Kate Alice Marshall’s debut adult thriller is well worth the read.

Three young friends, Cass, Liv, and Naomi are like many eleven year olds; wanting to believe in magic, enjoying long days pretending, and holding special secrets that only the three girls know. All is fun and games until the girls meet Persephone and Naomi is attacked. Following the girls’ testimony, Alan Stahl is sent to prison. All should be well, but the lies in the woods won’t release the three girls.

Two plus decades later, Stahl is dead and the women come back together as a sort of reunion only to find that Liv wants to release the secrets and stop the lies.

What Lies in the Woods is an incredibly intertwined whodunnit with red herrings at every turn. To be honest, I had re-read a few paragraphs because toward the end the revelations and zingers were fast and furious I got tripped up.

This is a great book and anyone who has ever lived a fantasy life as a child will relate. Well done, Kate Alice Marshall.