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2000s: Do you always do what you’re told but do you live to regret it?
2000s: Do you always do what you’re told but do you live to regret it?
Cass ignores her husband’s advice not to take a short cut down Blackwater Lane on her way home one night, but she does and she may well live to regret it. That night, as she drove down that lane in the dark and the howling storm, she noticed a car parked at a funny angle at the side of the road. She quickly decides that she won’t stop to investigate even though she’s spotted a woman sitting alone in the car.
the next day she discovers a woman has been murdered in that very same place….could she have stopped it happening?2000s:
Anytown, any place really – it’s fictional and not a major setting in story tems. What is the real setting however is every female motorists nightmare – a dark country road in a storm and a car broken down at the side of it.
Cass has been told not to drive here for various reasons and now she tries to hide what she has seen by reporting it anonymously. Yet that night, in that layby comes back to haunt her as she apparently was not the only one there that night. The main character’s mother has dementia and both claustrophobic and hauntingly lonely worlds merge into one nightmare.
Author/Guide: BA Paris Destination: England Departure Time: 2000s
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