Last Lullaby

by Carol Wyer

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Ouch, what a story, one that I can safely say flummoxed me. Yes, I did steal that right from the end of the book! I could not figure out for the life of me who was behind the murders. There was a LOT of red herrings, which is just….fabulous!!

Every page I was suspecting the same people Natalie and her team were. All coming back to the same links she did and everything surrounding the one seemingly logical explanation. However, nothing is ever what it seems in one of Carol’s books!

Last Lullaby is not only taxing on Natalie and her team, but it is starting to seep further into Natalie’s personal life, tensions and frustrations are running high. Rows are sparking with David at home, as tempers flare, dates are cancelled and then the final tipping point for Natalie is exposed in the final pages. God, this fall out is going to be destructive and completely explosive!! As wrong as this sounds, I can’t wait to witness this.

Lucy was given more focus on this book, probably to amplify something foreboding in the future….god I hope not. I like her! We get a glimpse into her life and how Bethany is coping with the pregnancy. It gives Lucy more of a pivotal role in our eyes as we have another character to watch grow but also to worry about.

This case, wow, it was horrific, I mean who kills a mother while their baby/child is in the wrong next door. These deaths are brutal, Charlotte has literally been battered to death, the pain of it all. This killer is not only completely messed up but he is a clever so and so. Some of the “tricks” were ingenious, again Carol’s imagination is just Woah! The team have their work cut out for them, we have so many different leads, it is like we are trying to find the middle of a labyrinth before the killer gets there, hitting every dead end on our journey. There is no respite for the team and I feel tired just reading the book! I need a lie-down.

One thing I really did like about this story, we have about 50% of the book just focusing on Charlotte and her last few hours. Revelations, secrets and shocks galore, questioning the wrong people, and then the last 50% the story ramps up. It makes you race through the book, although it does not matter how quickly you read this book we can’t change the outcome unfortunately, this is not a choose your destiny book. This book is final. The words have been written and we are just on the ride to hope Natalie and her team can stop the killer before we lose any more women.