The girl on the bus

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The Synopsis:

A retired detective and a young woman are about to face their worst fears.

Vicki Reiner is emotionally isolated and craves the fleeting happiness she experienced in the years prior to her college graduation. In an attempt to recapture this, she invites her former friend and room-mate, Laurie, for a break at her deserted beachside home. However, despite booking an online bus ticket, her friend never shows up and seems to have vanished.

Unable to accept the bizarre circumstances of the disappearance, Vicki approaches the police who dismiss her concerns before enlisting the reluctant help of Leighton Jones – a newly retired detective who is haunted by the death of his teenage daughter. Despite trying to remain detached from the case, Leighton is drawn to Vicki and her search for justice.

The unlikely pair face numerous obstacles but using a combination of methods he and Vicki track the killers who are working across the dusty freeways of North America.

Soon Vicki and Leighton find themselves nervously waiting at a remote bus stop expecting the arrival of the bus.

Will they ever discover what happened to Laurie?

And can they both escape with their lives?

My Thoughts:

If you can get past the seemingly generic title of the book, then believe me, you are in for a real treat!

This is an extremely intense and gripping read. The author certainly shows us his talent in this debut novel.Well written and fast paced the story will have you wanting to just keep going. Not a book you will be wanting to put down.

The story is based around two main personalities in the form of Vicki & Leighton. Vicki is dismissed from the police station after trying to report her friend missing. Leighton, a retired detective, seems to be the only one willing and able to help her. We follow them through the story as they try to find out what is happening to the missing girls who buy their tickets from the same bus company but never arrive at their destination.

This is a complex tale, told with excellent descriptive skills from NM Brown. The characters are well thought out and built up as the story progresses. You really do start to care about them and what is happening to them. A story that is fully immersive and gripping this is definitely an author to look out for in the future.

Author Bio:

Norman M. Brown is an author living and working in Scotland. He attended secondary school in Stirling where he spent more time in the library or in the nearby park with a paperback, than he did in classes… Ironically, having graduated from Stirling University with a degree in English, he soon ended up back on the classroom again – where he has shared his love of fiction for two decades. Having experimented with poetry, scripts and short stories over the years, he finally decided to write sit down and write the type of fiction he would like to read. The result was his crime thriller -The Girl on the Bus. As result, Norman was delighted to be signed to Bloodhound Books at the start of this year. The Girl in the Bus, is his first published novel. He is currently writing a second novel based on its protagonist - detective Leighton Jones.