Jenny is a strange one. There's something not quite right with her but I just don't know what. She almost throws herself into the dead the dead centre of the drama its almost as if she wants it all to be about her because I think maybe that's why she did of it could if just been pure guilt.

We were on holidays in London with my parents. We were in the London underground and myself and my sister, Elaine, got on the Tube. I was 12, she was six, and the doors closed and our parents and our other two sisters were still on the platform and the train took off,” Mara says, explaining the inspiration for the book. “We didn’t really know what to do, but the person beside us said ‘your dad was shouting Tower Bridge through the doors’. The person told us where Tower Bridge was and where to get off the train. No One Saw a Thing is a very fast-paced and layered thriller. Crossing timelines, Andrea Mara creates a complex web of deception and lies, with red herrings aplenty, baiting the reader and successfully leaving you flummoxed on more than one occasion. There is an intensity to this tale, a fear-inducing panic that refuses to die down as the tension ramps up and more secrets are revealed.

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On Monday morning, Sive is getting on the Tube with her three children when the Tube doors close leaving her stranded on the platform and her daughters on the Tube. The alarm is raised but when the train arrives at the next station, six year old Faye has gone missing and, as the title says, no one saw a thing. Every parent’s worst nightmare - the absolute fear 😰. It's only when you reach the next stop that you truly begin to panic. Because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one. Irish Times Top Ten bestselling author Andrea Mara, has written her UK debut “All Her Fault” - a mystery domestic thriller where secrets and lies can rapidly rip a family apart when they start to be revealed. There starts this novel and it does not let up. What I loved so much about this book was the complexity of the story, you are pushed and pulled in multiple different directions and the number of red herrings and false starts will leave equally frustrated and enthralled - just when you think you have it sussed, you don't!

I wasn’t thinking about writing books at all. It was only when my third child was born and I was trying to balance working full-time and bringing up three children, and dropping them to creche, or whatever, that I started blogging. El final es bueno. Marissa se ve enfrentada a una situación imposible y hay que reconocer que la resuelve. No estoy muy segura de que sea la mejor manera, pero desde luego impacta. By the time you get to the next stop, you’ve convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren’t two children waiting for you on the platform. There’s only one.

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Es difícil explicarlo sin hacer ningún spoiler. Digamos que no me ha convencido que se considerase el secuestro del niño como la única vía para solucionar todo el lío. La autora nos explica las razones y no digo que no tengan su lógica. También digo, que siempre que un escritor necesita explicar algo así, es porque entiende, que ese es el punto más débil y cuestionable de la trama. En este caso, los motivos que nos ofrece me habrían parecido más plausibles si el secuestro hubiera sido el resultado de un impulso. Al no ser este el caso y con semejante premeditación, me cuesta creer que los autores ni siquiera considerasen la otra opción que tenían, más sencilla y viable. Unfortunately the pacing was just a lil too slow and the writing a lil too basique for this to be a Honda Civic Reliable. It has a nice cast of clearly-drawn characters (albeit a lil one dimensional) but seems to be missing the necessary police presence (similar to No One Saw a Thing). Also the characters acted a lil obtuse to further the plot, which is a pet peeve of mine. For example, when Marissa finds out X might have been in a seggsual cahoots with the baddie, she wonders if she should call the police or not. GIRL?????? YES. I only had a few niggles: the police presence is virtually nonexistent, I didn't really understand why Sive trusted Jude so openly and gave her such access into her life, and the ending was way too "catching up with a friend over coffee" style for my liking. Otherwise, this is a solid popcorn thriller that I'd recommend to all "levels" of thriller readers (new to the genre, Scooby Doo gang, and full-on Aaron Hotch). The rest of the book is the frantic search by parents Sive and Aaron to find out where she is, who has taken her and why. I think the ‘what ifs’ and dark stories were always rattling around in my head,” Mara says. She recalls an occasion when her youngest child was up crying each night, and she worried that they might be disturbing their neighbours. And then she remembered she hadn’t seen them in a while, and wondered what if something had happened and only she was aware of it because of the nocturnal wakings. As her mind went into overdrive, she asked her husband the next day if he had seen their neighbours, only to be told he’d been chatting to them the day before. But the idea for another novel was born.