A DOUBLE LIFE

By Flynn Berry

This is a terrific book from beginning to end, as the reader is first asked: “What would it be like to be the daughter of a notorious criminal who fled the country when you were eight years old and was never seen again?” A girl who is forced to live under an assumed identity after her family and their evil deeds create tabloid headlines.

Claire and her brother were children sleeping upstairs in their home when brutality entered their lives. A crime was committed right below them thirty years ago and their father basically up and disappeared. Although his car was found the next morning beside the English Channel, with front seats stained with blood, his body has yet to surface. Claire’s mother has stated forever that she had seen him in the house that horrific night, yet the man’s friends claim he wasn’t there and that he, himself, is a victim. So…who do you believe?

Thirty years later Claire is living a peaceful life in London, even though she just happens to be the daughter of a truly notorious murderer…or so the world believes. But when she is told that her father has finally resurfaced, Claire must decide which side she’s on. Was the man a victim who fled from someone trying to hurt him back then; or was he, himself, the killer everyone believes him to be?

Inspired by a very real, unsolved case where a British Lord attacked his wife, killed his children’s nanny and disappeared without a trace, Berry has taken facts and used her own brilliance to create a book that is impossible to put down.