The Key: The most gripping, heartbreaking novel of World War Two historical fiction from the global bestselling author of The Memory Box

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I found it slow,boring and predictable The "book quest" feels like just a prop for what is essentially the story of two-not really interesting- dysfunctional families. After the treasure hunt game which was based on Elinore’s story became a huge sensation, hopeless art student Frank turns into Sir Frank Churcher leading his readers to seven sites where jewels were buried: one by one, tiny golden bones were dug up until only Elinore’s pelvis remained hidden. Discover captivating stories of pain and passion, treachery and torture with our Yeoman Warder tours at the Tower of London. If you like psychological thrillers, suspense and can afford to be completely engrossed in a story until the end….

The Key In The Lock: A haunting historical mystery steeped in

It's a long, rambling, admittedly well written, description of two dysfunctional families loosely tied together by a book one of them published long ago, that became a sensation that attracted a bunch of nutters, stalkers and weirdos. The message from Ellie at the end clearly explains that the phone used in the attic was her mother, Sandra’s, old one, and that Maddie climbed out the window to get in to the attic through another one.

So everybody in this family is doomed to death or addiction or severe depression except the worthless father, who would likely get away from blame due to the nanny taking it all. Then we have ‘Reading Group Questions,’ including ‘Who is your favourite/least favourite character and how true did each of them feel? As dark secrets were revealed, and family dynamics became more and more dysfunctional, my fascination with these characters made me loath to put the book down. With so much happening, it doesn’t quite keep the same momentum throughout (I found a few of the aforementioned subplots a bit tiresome, and found myself furiously disagreeing with Nell’s moral standpoint towards the end!

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Clues and puzzles in the pages of The Golden Bones led readers to seven sites where jewels were buried – gold and precious stones, each a different part of a skeleton.However, this is definitely a character-driven novel with a focus on the many, mostly bad, decisions these characters have made throughout the years. Anyway, all this has started up again as they've decided to make an app and create another treasure hunt, but on the date of the release, a real bone is found in the place that they've hidden the last golden bone from the previous skeleton (a pelvis). In a lot of ways, this is really the story of two families vs a treasure hunt mystery…but that doesn’t limit the number of twists or surprises. Unfortunately, I had a hard time keeping part of the story straight with all the back and forth between the three timelines.

The Key: The most gripping, heartbreaking novel of World War

I can’t say much more without giving things away, so I will leave it at this: do yourself a favour and pick up this clever mystery today to find out for yourself why I couldn’t put it down. It was disappointing that the original premise and treasure hunt aspects were quite irrelevant to the story at the end. In this new digital age there will be a new challenge via an app of clues that will lead to skeleton keys. Along with sex, drugs, booze and not much rock ‘n’ roll we view dysfunction personified with the Churchers and the Lalleys which is entertaining reading. The beautiful scenes that this country and land gives out to those who look for the view, and the thankfulness of being there to see things happen that make me smile.They are from a 27-year old woman, Rowan Caine, who is in prison awaiting her trial for murder of a child. Poor girl was attacked by paranoid schizophrenic fan of the treasure hunt named Ingrid who thought by tearing Eleanor’s pelvis apart with a knife would help her to resuscitate Elinore! Luckily I had full trust that Kelly would not disappoint me (she never has in the past) and was soon totally hooked. The whole conversation has a melancholic feel to it, the men are not so much surprised as depressed at finding the letters.