Twenty years ago, his daughter vanished.
He was the last person to see her.
Twenty years to the day, a second girl vanishes.
He’s the last person to see her too.
Axel Petersen’s life implodes as his teenage daughter disappears. For twenty years, there’s no clue as to where she is, or what’s happened to her.
Exactly twenty years later, Axel meets a girl of around the same age his daughter was on the day she disappeared on a train. On jointly alighting at the final stop on the small rural line, he offers her a lift to her holiday cottage. Then that girl disappears too.
Axel plunges into the search for this second missing girl. Along the way he becomes increasingly convinced there’s a strong connection between the present-day disappearance and the twenty-year-old mystery – and he’s right, although in ways he can hardly begin to imagine.
What did I think?
Oh this book is SO good; there are so many tangled threads to untangle that you simply can't trust anyone. With two missing girls, 20 years apart, the pacing is electric as they're clearly linked but I had no idea how.
It's 20 years since Axel's daughter Cara went missing and not a day goes by where he doesn't think about her, so imagine his surprise when he sees Cara on his train. Only it's not Cara, but a young girl around the age Cara was when she disappeared. The girl is stranded at the station and Axel offers her a lift to ensure that she gets to her destination safely, but after he drops her off, she disappears...leaving Axel as the prime suspect.
The two-fold mystery had me on the edge of my seat and my eyes were zipping down the page as fast as lightning. It's so tense, dramatic and completely riveting and I had no idea what had happened to either girl but I pretty much suspected everyone in the book at one point or another. I loved how it all came together at the end when everything is revealed.
Axel owns a bookshop so there are some lovely passages about books, particularly one where Axel explains to Cara about books having a soul, but not just one soul as it has the soul of the author as well as the souls every person who has read it. This is a stunningly beautiful thought and one I completely agree with.
With more WTF moments than Gordon Ramsay's kitchen, Can I Trust You? is a superb psychological thriller that really got under my skin and inside my mind. I absolutely devoured it and loved every second of it. A highly recommended read.
I received an ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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