📖 Book Review ~ She Never Came Back by Patricia Dixon

Boldwood

23 July 2026

My thanks to the publisher for Mac copy of thei sbook

 

Someone knows what happened...

Seventeen years ago, Melanie Carter vanished on a lonely road in rural France. No body. No answers. The case went cold.

Now, her troubled sister Sunny has fled to the same village, convinced Melanie is calling her back. Taken in by a friendly local known as Happy Frank, Sunny begins digging into the past – and edges closer to a secret someone will do anything to keep hidden.

In nearby La Baule, glamorous socialite Nanette Montmartre looks to have everything she ever wanted. But an urgent call from England threatens to expose the truth she and her mother buried after that long-ago summer.

As young women begin disappearing across France, fears of a serial killer surface. And in Saint-Luc, the danger is closer than anyone thinks.

A pulse-racing psychological thriller about family secrets, toxic love, and darkness hiding in plain sight.

📖 My Review..

With the seventeenth anniversary of her older sister’s disappearance coming round again Sunny Carter decides that now is the time for her to return to France and go back to the same rural village where her sister was last seen. However, in order to get some sort of resolution Sunny must confront the demons of the past, uncovering huge secrets, and devastating lies, always in the hope that the truth about Melanie’s disappearance will finally be revealed.

This complex story is told through several characters who have all had to live with their own sorrow about Melanie’s disappearance, from the thought processes of her best friend Nanette, to the torment of Melanie and Sunny’s mother, Pamela there are deep underlying secrets which refuse to go away. It is only when Sunny starts to disturb the equilibrium that the toxic secrets, so long buried, can finally come to the surface.

There are twists and turns a plenty in this fast paced psychological thriller, some of the twists had my heart pounding as I read faster in order to get the final conclusion, which, when it came didn’t disappoint. Cleverly and intelligently written this is a gripping story, well told from start to finish and with set of characters who, whilst not wholly likeable, certainly command the reader’s attention.

About the Author 

Patricia Dixon is an internationally bestselling author of psychological thrillers and women’s fiction. Previously published by Bloodhound, Boldwood will re-publish several of her backlist titles alongside new psychological thrillers from July 2026.

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