Jenna continues to obstruct her past from Patrick, but one day two police officers knocking on the door of her sanctuary in Wales ensures that her awful secret must come to light. This also leads Jenna into the arms of a gentle local vet Patrick, who offers her friendship, as well as love. She adopts an abandoned puppy, which gives Jenna vital life to care for.

Eventually, as the warmer weather dawns and summer makes its entrance, Jenna’s life brightens. That winter is a cold and lonely one for Jenna, as she tries to hide from a terrible secret that haunts her thoughts, day and night. Escaping her marriage and past hurts, Jenna finds solace in an isolated and cold stone cottage in Penfach. Jenna Gray is a sculptor, who one day packs up her life in Bristol and makes the move to a remote coastal village in Wales. His little broken body, at the hands of a cowardly driver, remains vivid in their minds. Kate and the lead detective Ray, both vow to fight for justice for Jacob. It is a decision that haunts one of the constables on Jacob’s case, Kate Evans. With the investigation hitting a dead end, despite the dedication and tireless work of Detective Inspector Ray Stevens and his team, the case is swept under the carpet, to make way for more high profile cases. I Let You Go is British author Clare Mackintosh’s intense debut psychological thriller, which also crosses into the mystery based, police procedural territory.įollowing the tragic death due to a hit and run accident of five year old Jacob Jordan, his mother disappears, blaming herself for his death. The pain of a mother, who in a split second let’s go of her son’s hand as he crosses the road, is one that will haunt her for the rest of her life, along with those impacted by this horrific accident. ‘I only let go for a second’ languishes the mother of five year old Jacob Jordan, who’s son is the victim of a hit and run accident, on a cold winter’s night in Bristol, England. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating. Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world descends into a nightmare.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery, Crime Publisher: Little Brown Group via Hachette Australia

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