The Girl in the Red Coat

from Kathl33n

This was a really compelling read, although I don't know that I would call it a mystery. We know right away what has happened. Maybe not the details of why or exactly how, but that is what made this such a page turner. The writing was also immersive. Both main characters were so painfully exposed...

from BillieBook

This was not the abducted child/grieving mother story I expected. Told in the alternating voices of the girl, Carmel, and her mother, Beth, the novel covers the five years after Carmel goes missing at a storytelling festival. Beth's side of the narrative is fairly standard for these types of book...

from Twink

The Girl in the Red Coat is Kate Hamer's debut novel. It's garnered lots of attention as a finalist for both the Costa Book Award for First Novel and the Dagger Award. And this is what I love about debuts - there's no history, no expectations of what the story is going to be, no familiarity with ...

from bnbookgirl

This is a good read, not earth shattering, but a good read. It is told from two view points: the mother who's struggling with the guilt of her daughters abduction and the young eight-year-old girl who was abducted. The emotions of both of these characters are really well written. My problem with ...

from pammykn

AUTHOR Hamer, Kate TITLE: The Girl in the Red Coat DATE READ 05/10/16 RATING 4/B GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF PAGES Suspense/2015 / Faber & Faber / 375 pgs SERIES/STAND-ALONE: Stand-Alone CHARACTERS Carmel 8 yr old daughter; Beth/single mother to Carmel TIME/PLACE: Present UK FIRST LINES I dr...