Two For Joy by Sarah A Denzil Isabel Fielding #2

Leah Smith has a new name, a new job and a new home. The sleepy seaside town, Clifton-on-Sea, is a refreshing change from the gloomy moors of Yorkshire. She couldn’t be farther away from her serial killer stalker.

Or so she thinks…

A new name isn’t enough to make her forget her past. Leah must come to terms with the events that occurred at Crowmont Hospital, especially when police discover the mutilated body of a young woman. Leah and Tom struggle with the consequences of their actions on the moors, and how they may have led to murder.

While a serial killer is on the loose, Leah throws herself into solving a different puzzle. She meets George, an elderly local man who suffered a heart-breaking childhood. In 1944, when George was just ten years old, his mother perished in a fire at the family home. His sister, Abigail, went missing during the fire, presumed dead. Abigail’s body was never recovered from the ashes. Twenty years later, George received a photograph of a young woman bearing a striking resemblance to his sister Abigail. Perhaps she didn’t die after all.

George is not a well man and time is running out to uncover what happened to little Abigail. Leah is drawn into the mystery, keen for any distraction from her own troubles. With assistance from George’s grandson, Mark, she vows to help.

But even as she immerses herself in George’s tragic past, she can never escape the one name that haunts her nightmares, Isabel Fielding…

My Review

I loved the first book, and the second was just as good. Leah has been moved under the witness protection programme, when it’s realised that Isabel survived being pushed off a cliff after trying to kill Leah and her brother Tom. They have a new life in the South East of England, living by the sea. Tom had to leave his foster family and is back with Leah, who had to leave Seb, with whom she had become good friends.

Isabel is now on the loose, in hiding and living on her wits. Her brother is in prison, her father is dead and her mother is a pill-popping alcoholic. Isabel is still obsessed with Leah, and is determined to find her.

In the meantime, Leah has found a job as a receptionist in an old people’s home, while Tom is working in a chip shop and making friends. Tom is being very difficult, and quite frankly, horrible to Leah.

In the home, Leah befriends an old man called George whose sister Abigail went missing 70 years ago. Believed to have died in a fire with her mum, her body was never found and she seemed to have vanished off the face of the earth. Leah is helping George’s grandson Mark find out what happened to Abigail.

I’m glad there was a side plot, because there wouldn’t have been enough ‘story’ with just Leah, Tom and Isabel. One thing I found very disturbing was the #justiceforAlison hashtag on Twitter, where people blame Leah for letting Isabel escape. They want her real name and location to be released. Why should public money be spent on protecting her when she was in cahoots with Isabel, they maintain. Many also believe she should have killed Isabel when she had the chance. Unless they have had military or police training, most ‘normal’ people would not be capable of killing someone, even in self defence. That’s my view anyway.

I listened to Two For Joy on Borrowbox and it’s also available on Audible. It’s the second in the series. I now need to read Three For A Girl to conclude the story.

About the Author

Sarah A. Denzil is a Wall Street Journal bestselling suspense writer. She is also known as young adult author Sarah Dalton.

Sarah lives in Yorkshire with her partner, enjoying the scenic countryside and rather unpredictable weather.

She is the author of international bestselling psychological thriller Silent Child, which topped the bestseller lists on Amazon in the US, UK and Australia.

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