Why a Booktrail?
2000s: You think you know the truth about the people you love.
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 - Nottingham
- A: Newstead Abbey
- B: Newstead Abbey vantage point
- C: Newstead train station
- D: Newstead Post Office
Travel Guide
Newstead
A real village and the abbey of the same name where the children play with their kites at the start of the novel is now a country house and grounds you can visit
Newstead is located between Nottingham and Mansfield. It is a former coal mining village with a poetry link as Lord Byron, lived at nearby Newstead Abbey. It also has links to another literary figure – that of Robin Hood since Newstead railway station is on the Robin Hood Line, which runs from Nottingham to Worksop.
Newstead Abbey
What a place to have an opening scene in a crime novel! – It’s a dissolved monastery and home of Byron’s ancestors …imagine the history and the ghosts of times past…
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Mistake
Destination: Newstead, Nottingham Author/Guide: K L Slater Departure Time: 2000s
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