Take an inter-schools competition, a sink-estate, a group of eleven year olds from dysfunctional families… and a murder. This is no genteel Famous Five novel, neither is it a book aimed at children.
Set in the early 1990s on the cusp of internet use, the children talk and write as they speak: ungrammatically and directly, their main focus international football and being ferried to the Alton Towers theme park. It is their inquisitiveness, and the need to be taken out of their lived lives not yet corrupted into cynicism, that emotionally touches readers who are reading between the lines.
In contrast, the adults – the non-teaching project leader and the manipulative journalist the children write to for information – it is they who soon find themselves out of their depth, whereas the youngsters use their street cred to create a solid wall of protection with very few chinks.
Who is the murder victim, who the repentant confessor to the crime? Whose side are the conspiracy theorists on? And who is paying the quietly spoken Heavy with a direct line to a forger and a seemingly bottomless bank balance?
This is a cracking tale of lives within lives, of deceit and cover-ups going back decades, and the resourcefulness of eleven year olds intent on enjoying the delights of the Alton Towers theme park.
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- Linda AcasterReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2024
A different take on a mystery thriller
