The Confession by Charlotte Bigland

 

They said they killed her. But they didn't - you did.

I should never have gone to her house. But I was desperate to ask her some questions about that night. About what she saw when Joe fell from the bridge.

All I wanted was some honesty, for someone else to have seen what I saw.

I never meant to hurt her. To push her.

As she lay at the bottom of the stairs, blood pooling around her head, I knew it was the end for me too.

I kept expecting the knock on the door, the police, the handcuffs. But it never came.

On the news, they are reporting someone has come forward and confessed to her murder.

But that can't be true. Because her killer is me…

Thanks so much to InstaBookTours for including me in the tour for this one! I was excited to read it.

So the first thing I notice is that this book is kind of set in my hometown of Newcastle, with the rest being set in Manchester. I love when books are set where I’m from so it intrigued me a little more. The story gets off to a good start, what the hell happened that night when Joe ‘fell’ from the bridge? Well we go on a mission to find out. I liked the character of Ela (or Elizabeth), and was rooting for her to figure out what went on. The side characters along the way were annoying, her Step Dad Liev for one was a big pain in the backside. But they all fit in somewhere, some more than others. I was quite shocked at the ending, a twist I didn’t see coming, I thought it was going to end in a different direction. So well done to Charlotte Bigland for that!

Thanks again to InstaBookTours, Charlotte Bigland, and Embala Books for letting me read this early.