Book Review: The Lost Notebook by Louise Douglas
This is a very readable slow-burn thriller with an engaging heroine. Mila tries to uncover the truth about a series of deaths in Brittany, while dealing with increasing pressures in her personal life. The relationships between family and friends are very well described, and I particularly enjoyed Mila’s imagined conversations with her deceased stepsister.
As more facts are discovered about the deaths, the tone of the book becomes much darker and more powerful, and takes the reader to a place we hadn’t expected to go — but this is excellently done, and very much increases the tension in the last quarter of the story. I also enjoyed the way some of the personal threads are left unresolved in the end, which only mirrors the way life is. A very good read.
