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Home Before Night

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When Lou discovers Samuel isn’t with his girlfriend, more alarm bells begin to ring, and Lou can’t help but think it has something to do with events from her past with Samuel’s father Marko. I have to say I was ambivalent about reading a book set in the pandemic and it did bring me back to that time and my own feelings about being in lockdown.

Weak and unsubstantial - as evidenced by the way that almost a third of the paperback is actually a seven chapter preview of his next book! I won’t spoil it for you, so reach out and grab a copy when you can, it’s a compressed style read that you will whip through in no time! I know we are still in the midst of the pandemic – as someone who only got it for the first time a month ago – but it was a bit surreal.

Deftly written, lean in style, this is a gripping read from a true talent' Better Reading'Twisty' West Australian'Propulsive. Seems like no one really has good memories of Covid and This book kinda has nothing to do with it, except a situational relevance. You know from the outset this will be a twisty psychological thriller and it's all that, with the storyline taking a few left turns to keep the suspense tightly coiled' Herald Sun'Ratchets up psychological suspense with a cleverly constructed plot that can be devoured in one go' Sydney Morning Herald'A frantic domestic thriller . A woman races against time to find her son in this tense and twisty thriller by the Top Ten bestselling author of The Wrong Woman. Being such a short length (only 189 pages) means that the tension ramped up quite quickly and had me racing through the pages.

The realistic setting, which allows us to take a short stroll back in time to Melbourne’s trying lockdown period, pulled me into Pomare’s narrative bubble.P. Pomare book and one I really enjoyed, this one is set in Melbourne during the lockdowns and this is a first for me. At just under 200 pages long, Home Before Night is a fast paced and entertaining read, but also much shorter than I expected, with the paperback padded with a 100 page preview of Pomare’s forthcoming novel, Seventeen Years Later, to be published in 2024.

I suppose if you live in Australia and we’re around during these awful times, it would be a good story for you. Maybe I'm just thick, but I didn't get the twist at the end and can think of no plausible explanation for how it could have happened, so this left it feeling unfinished for me.

I thought I was only halfway through the main book, but it was actually near the end and I just thought ‘is that it? Set during the pandemic as Melbourne faced lockdown after lockdown, this tension filled tale will have you flipping pages at breakneck speed to get to the bottom of this compulsive crime mystery. Pomare throws out a few red herrings to mislead you along the way, making the big reveal all the more shocking. I feel conflicted about the ending as I had to suspend my belief (and not necessarily in a good way). His novel In The Clearing has been optioned for screen adaption by Disney+ and will be released as an eight part miniseries in 2023.

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