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    Hold My Hand
    Hold My Hand
    Hold My Hand
    Audiobook9 hours

    Hold My Hand

    Written by M.J. Ford

    Narrated by Joan Walker

    3.5/5

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    How long do you hunt for the missing?

    A horrible vanishing act…

    When a young Josie Masters sees a boy wearing a red football shirt, Dylan Jones, being taken by a clown at a carnival, she tries to alert the crowds. But it’s too late. Dylan has disappeared…

    Thirty years later, Josie is working as a police officer in Bath. The remains of the body of a child have been found – complete with tatters of a torn red football shirt. Is it the boy she saw vanish in the clutches of the clown? Or is it someone else altogether?

    And then another child disappears…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 8, 2018
    ISBN9780008258849
    Author

    M.J. Ford

    M.J. Ford lives with his family on the edge of the Peak District in the north of England. He has worked as an editor and writer of childen’s fiction for many years. You can follow Michael @MJFordBooks.

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    • 3/5
      It had the makings of a good book, and the story had a promising plot, but there was just too much going on at once. It read like stories within stories. You would have thought the author was never going to get a chance to write another book "so let's get it all in here". I did begin to understand though, why I hate clowns. The beginning and about 30% of the book was the best parts. The story covers a span of roughly 30 years. Starting with the kidnapping of a little boy at a carnival, which happened to be witnessed by a little girl. Thirty years down the road; that little girl is now a detective assigned to another case of a kidnapped little boy. Many pages later we come to the ending. It needed...well, something more believable. The "big reveal" was over the top. It felt as if the author wanted to come up with something that was so bizarre and so out in left field that the reader would be overly, even shockingly, surprised. I know this was this author's first book...heaven knows I have never had a first book or any book for that matter...but there was so much that really "bothered" me and didn't fit well together about the entire layout of the story. I gave it 3 stars...because first of all, I DID NOT HATE THE BOOK. Those stars are also for the author's first efforts, she is a good writer...for the idea of the plot...and for the first part of the story which really was very good...but someone in charge of the editing or the finished product, really let this author down somewhere along the way. Of course, I have probably done more with this review to get people to read it than the editor ever could have hoped to have accomplished:)
    • 5/5
      Well, Hold My Hand, is a very clever crime novel. I didn't realise from the blurb that it was quite as much of a police procedural as it was. The child being led from a fair by a clown sounded very sinister and I was expecting something a bit more scary. That's not to say that this is not a hard-hitting, gritty story as it absolutely is that, and I loved every minute I spent reading it.Jo Masters, as a child, witnessed Dylan Jones being taken from the fair. Thirty years on, she happens to be on duty as a police officer when a body, possibly Dylan's, turns up. And then, when another child goes missing, she wonders if this is the chance to put away a child abductor or murderer for good.Jo is a feisty and impetuous police officer, but a good one. There's stuff going on in her personal life but it doesn't affect her ability to do her job well. I enjoyed her interactions with other officers and the way she went about her investigations.Though this is primarily a police procedural, it's far more than that and it's a lot more intense than just a police officer investigating a crime. It's got guts, it's got twists and turns galore, and it's extremely well-written. After a little bit of getting to know the characters and the story, I just raced through it.The ending truly is shocking and chilling and, I have to say, totally unexpected. I thought it was quite a genius bit of plot work to weave it into the story so well, with so many red herrings to throw me off the scent.I found Hold My Hand to be a fantastic read. I wonder if we will see more of Jo. I feel she has a lot more to tell us and a lot more to give and so I hope that M.J. Ford will give her another outing.