Bury Your Secrets - M.R. Mackenzie
With his usual clarity, precision and way of drawing you immediately into a story, it doesn't take too long for M.R. Mackenzie to put names to the three women carrying a body to a shallow grave in the woods in the prologue of Bury Your Secrets . There are a few other elements that encourage you to read further, not least of which obviously is to find out who is dead and what went so badly wrong that the three ordinary young women on a break to a remote Scottish town need to bring a body to the woods in the dark of night. If it turned out to be Hazel's errant and arrogant husband Matthew you wouldn't be surprised but it seems unlikely. Yes, he might have been caught on cheating on Hazel with a blonde secretary in their own bedroom, but he hasn't been invited on the girls' trip evidently and she doesn't seem ready to resort to murder. Rather, Hazel has teamed up with her straight-talking hard-drinking cousin Mickie, resettled in Edinburgh from Australia, and Clair...