Blog Tour: The Bone House by Caroline Mitchell

A series of terrifying natural events are revealing an even scarrier secret. As birds are suddenly falling down from the sky and the local ecosystem around Slayton lake seems to go through a dramatic turmoil, the receding waters reveal a horrible crime: the remains of a baby in a pram.

Cora, a new mother, seems to know more about this and seems to finally be unable to hide a terrible secret any more. But how and why really all happened?

The Bone House by Caroline Mitchell, a Slayton Thriller, is a psychological thriller hard to put down. A former police detective, Mitchell included so many smart lines about forensic investigations and investigative proceedings in general that the book feels sometimes like a real crime story. And this is definitely not a critique. As usual in the case of the crime thrillers, we may always discover more about human psychology and facilitating such revelations in a relatively normal framework usually makes a story relatable.

The ´black magic´, out of this world references - like the birds falling out of the sky, a beginning worth a successful Hitchcock movie - takes the reader out from the world of forensics to the unchained strength of nature, where human rules do not apply. 

I also liked how the story unfolds through various narratives shared by the various protagonists of the story, a choice that definitely creates more suspense to the story.

The Bone House shares a horrible yet very human story that is troubling even the laws of nature. Fore sure, I will return to this author sooner than later.

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the blog tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own