Why a Booktrail?
2000s: You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything…
The Mistake
What you need to know before your trail
Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later, he is found dead.
Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy’s death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother?
Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life. But one day Ronnie falls ill, and Rose goes next door to help him… and what she finds in his attic room turns her world upside down.
Rose thought she knew the truth about what happened to Billy. She thought she knew her neighbour. Now the only thing she knows is that she is in danger…
Locations
Reset- England - Nottinghamshire
- A: Newstead station
- B: Newstead Primary School/library
- C: Newstead - Newstead Abbey
- D: Newstead - Old Coal Mining Cart
Travel Guide
Newstead
The village in Nottinghamshire where the story unfolds.
“the village sat on one side of the road and Newstead woods on the other, a curious merging of the hard steely edges of a moribund industry and the soft green haze of nature”
A place where a boy is killed and where his sister lives in constant fear…
Newstead library
Newstead has one of the smallest libraries in the county. They open for three days a week and only Wednesday is all day. The rest is a mix of mornings and afternoons. The lead character in the novel works here and although the library is tired and old, she enjoys the views and the atmosphere (which she puts down to all the wonderful stories she says aaah.) It’s amazing what some libraries seem to know about who goes in there….
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
Great premise for a thriller and mystery but oh my goodness this is sad! Of course it’s going to be tragic with the death of a young boy, but this went deeper. the back story of Rose and her suffering on so many levels….well I was a wreck. It’s a hard read because of this for me. Good, don’t get me wrong, but as she grew up, and then we see her living with the ghosts of the past…well she’s one of these ghosts. I had to keep going to see what played out and who was ultimately responsible for the death of Billy though.
I have to say that the setting for this crime was ideal in the sense that the village was real and that it had very real history and heritage and a very small library which dials up the creepy factor and the small town way of living and thinking that can sometimes result.
The nice light touch of the novel was how Rose looked after the books and chose titles and arranged them on the shelves but then even that was tinged with chills.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Mistake
Destination: Newstead Author/Guide: K.L. Slater Departure Time: 2000s, 16 years earlier
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