This is a book told from two viewpoints, Nell and her sister Macy. Both of their lives changed massively in 1993, when Nell and her best friend Jude find a dead body on the beach, who is unidentified but definitely murdered.

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When best friends Nell and Jude discover the body of a young lady on the beach, the path of their lives are changed forever. 25 years on, and Nell is still desperate to discover the identity of the lady labelled as the 'Brighton Mermaid'. As she steps up her investigations and starts edging towards the truth, she finds herself and those around her in increasing danger. I must admit it was doing well for the first chapters but then it started going everywhere and nowhere at the same time, turning a promising plot into what I like to call the Pinball Multi-ball Effect. Nell, Jude and Macy the three main characters in the book are very special to me. I still feel like I have a connection with them and I’ve been very reluctant to let them go. But let them go I must if you are going to read about them. The Brighton Mermaid, although an emotional thriller with some highly tense and threatening moments still feels, to me, like a love letter to my home city – Brighton.Wondering where to start? Wonder no more. We’ve rounded up our favourite Dorothy Koomson books, so dig in and enjoy! The narrative is fast-paced and kept me wanting to read on, and I love the element of mystery interwoven with topics around family, friendship and secrets. There's a mix of emotions, with some quite disturbing themes cropping up alongside slightly more light-hearted parts. I loved the sense of time and place that Koomson always creates so well - I may only have been a very small child at the time this was set but I could picture myself there, in the early 1990's, right there with Jude and Nell as they made their horrifying discovery.

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Quem como eu segue a escrita da Dorothy Koomson, repara que desde o último livro "A Amiga", a sua forma de escrita tem mudado, tendo-se evidenciado neste livro. Twenty-five years ago, Nell and her best friend Jude, discover the body of a young girl on a Brighton beach. Despite having the most wonderful mermaid tattoo, the girl is never identified and her killer is never caught. A few weeks later, Jude disappears. Now, Nell has taken a year off work to try and figure out what happened to Jude and maybe finally solve the murder of the Brighton Mermaid, as she was called. I’ll straight up tell you that I was utterly thrilled to be granted an ARC of this book because Dorothy Koomson has long been one of my favourite authors; her storytelling skills are off the scale! Unputdownable novels such as Rose Petal Beach, The Ice Cream Girls and That Girl From Nowhere all embody her phenomenal talent of writing genre-crossing bestselling books! Ok, so now you know I’m a huge fan. This book did not disappoint; it is everything you’d hope for from Koomson, and some.