I find the book starts slow but as you turn the pages the pace picks up and before you have a moment to catch your breath you are engrossed in a gripping reveal. The characters in Hide and Seek are hiding so many secrets from each other that I learned to trust no one. Joanna Stedman, her husband Mark and their three children, Emily, Ben and Sophie move into what they hope is their forever home in the suburbs of Dublin. Lily was never found and Joanna believes she knows more about this case than most because Joanna has a whole closet full of secrets herself.

Joanna is jolted, her thoughts tumble and turn, she’s freaked out, so spooked and thoi fearful she feels honour bound to investigate. However, the story is so intricately plotted and there are twists upon twists, which made for a dark, suspenseful read.

I highly recommend Hide and Seek, I think along with The Sleeper Lies, it’s probably my favourite Andrea Mara so far. In 1985 Cora is a reticent girl of about eight with few friends, who tends to slightly unnerve the adults as well as the neighbourhood children, who finds her only companion in three-year-old Lily.

I couldn’t work out the solution to the mystery for most of the book, even at that I only deduced part of it! The game of hide and seek is over, everyone has gone home, but little Lily Murphy hasn’t been found. Chris Whitaker**Don't miss No One Saw A Thing, the gripping, twisty new thriller from Andrea Mara, out now! There were quite a few characters to keep track of and I was left questioning everyone and whether they were behind the disappearance. It might be this history, it might be because she has a three year old daughter, or maybe because her husband grew up nearby but Joanna becomes obsessed with discovering what happened to little Lily.Just what happened to Lily on that fateful day so many years ago when a game of Hide and Seek went wrong and so many years later the exact truth behind a little girls disappearance still remains unsolved. Lily was last seen during a summer-time game of, you’ve guessed it, Hide and Seek, and after wandering off onto a nearby building site, or being spooked by someone out for a scare, was never seen again. Who could given it was so twisty and brilliant but I was ever so slightly on the right track but as to the finer details I was way off track and delighted this was the case. Joanna and her husband Mark move to a bigger house with there three children Joanna and her youngest daughter are playing hide and seek in the garden but Joanna panic s as she can't find Sophie but then her new neighbour Fran says she hiding in her garden and Fran tells her that the occupants that used to live there lost there daughter Lily playing hide and seek and was never found.