Charlie was in prison for providing a false alibi for a murderer. But Lee Fisher wasn't a murderer to her; he was the man she loved. Convinced of his innocence, Charlie said she was with him the night a young woman was killed.
And now she has a chance to start again. But someone is watching her, waiting for her, wondering if she's really paid the price for what she did….
I'd like to thank Mia at Harvill Secker for inviting me to be part of this blog tour and for my copy of Safe House to review via NetGalley.
Safe House is as a the title suggests is what Charlie Miller is looking for, a place of security giving her the chance to rebuild her life after the events of the previous two years. But not everyone is happy that Charlie is free to continue on with her life, albeit different to the life she had led with her boyfriend Lee before his conviction for double murder.
From the outset you could sense the fear and paranoia that Charlie was feeling, all alone in the world with nowhere to go. She's unable to go back to her previous life so has no option but to start afresh somewhere new where no-one knows her, giving her the chance to stand on her own two feet without relying on anyone else. But can she really escape from the past especially when it looks like someone is out to seek revenge?
As soon as I read that she was leaving city life behind and heading south to Cornwall alarm bells were ringing in my head as it's easier to immerse and lose yourself in a big town or city than in a small tourist village. And the fact that she bought the derelict property sight unseen means that she has no idea what she is letting herself in especially as coastal Cornwall is not renowned for its mobile signal so she could literally be cut off from the outside world!
As we get to know more about Charlie and her past, we discover that she was just as much a victim although it would seem that one person in particular doesn't believe her and thinks she was more involved than she was letting on. Nothing she says or does will deter them otherwise and it would seem that they are going to seek out the truth no matter the cost...
Charlie as a character quite surprised me, she was a lot more stronger and resilient than I expected her to be as I thought she'd be a bit more vulnerable considering the fact that she now has to go it alone. I guess the fact that she has no-one to turn to for support has made her stronger and she's had to develop the life skills needed to support herself. But by moving to a remote location, is she really moving on with her life or switching from one solitary lifestyle to another?
Safe House was a very dark, tense and atmospheric read with revenge at its core. The tension is amped up slowly by the author as she draws you into Charlie's life and we discover the events that brought her to this point. At the same time we are drip fed some narrative from a third party who is hell bent on revenge and I was constantly trying to second guess just who it could be especially as it all came to a head in the final few chapters.
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