"It sounds like a simple message left on an answer machine. But for Innes Haldane, the name Isabella Velasco is enough to make her blood run cold. It's a name from her past - a past she has tried hard to forget.
"For in 1977 a 15-year-old girl Innes spent a year in Edinburgh at The Unit, an experimental home for highly intelligent but dysfunctional teenagers. There her fellow patients had included shy and studious Simon Calder, aggressive Alex Baxendale, child rapist Danny Rintoul and the beautiful Isabella Velasco.
"The year was to have catastrophic repercussions on all concerned. And now, nearly three decades later, Isabella is trying to make contact again.
"But Innes never finds out why. For only days later she reads a newspaper account of Isabella's suicide at a local swimming pool. Innes's shock quickly turns to fear when she hears that Danny too recently committed suicide by drowning.
"Has some dark even, buried deep in 1977, come back to haunt them all, with tragic and terrifying results...?"
What really happened in the Unit back in 1977? A story told through flashbacks, medical records and newspaper articles. I really enjoyed this complex thriller. | |
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