Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not by Claire Allan

Published by Avon Books

May 2019

I disappeared on a Tuesday afternoon. I was there one minute and the next I was gone. They’ve never found my body…
 
It’s six in the morning during the hottest summer on record when Elizabeth O’Loughlin, out walking her dog, comes across Clare, a victim of a horrific knife attack, clinging onto life at the side of the road.
 
Clare dies minutes later, but not before whispering her haunting last words to Elizabeth.
  
When it becomes clear that Clare’s killer has more than one murder on his mind, Elizabeth has to take drastic action or face losing everything.
 
But what if she can’t stop a killer determined never to be forgotten?

Walking her dog early one summer morning, Elizabeth O'Loughlin discovers the body of a young woman with horrific injuries.  She is alive, but barely and as they wait for the ambulance to arrive, her final whispered words are "warn them".  But who does Clare mean for Elizabeth warn; they haven't even met before.

Clare has two best friends, Rachel and Julie and their lives are torn apart when they learn of her horrific death. To make things worse though, the police think that the killer may have a grudge against them too as a seemingly innocent bunch of forget me nots, sent to Julie, seem remarkably similar to a bunch that were left where Clare died and the messages on them aren't those normally associated with flowers left to remember the dead.

Laura isn't sure who she can turn to, her husband has been very distant of late and her lover Michael is growing impatient at their lack of time together. When a man approaches her youngest daughter at her nursery school she realises that things might be a little more serious than first anticipated.

Elizabeth tries to bury the discovery of Clare's body in the back of her mind but the persistent calling of a journalist for more information about that day opens up a can of worms into the suicide of her own daughter Laura.  What she doesn't expect to happen is to discover that Laura went to school with Clare - can there be some strange connection between what happened to her daughter and the murder of Clare?

Forget Me Not has lots of twists and turns, leaving you wondering which character's to believe or which to suspect.  I was wrong in my assumptions by the way!  I think this book definitely calls out to appear on television - it would make a great mini series!

Happy Reading

Miss Chapters x