strange and harrowing journey of worst fear seeps closer and closer
her own—to a totally unexpected to her like a heavy blanket that
place that requires her to live by won't lift.
her wits, while trying desperately
to keep in her head, at all times, a The Girl in the Red Coat is a thrilling,
vision of her mother …
haunting,
yet
realistically
done read that readers will love.
Alternating between Beth’s story Kate Hamer zooms in on the psyand Carmel’s, and written in grip- chological and emotional journey
ping prose that won’t let go, The of both mother and daughter.
Girl in the Red Coat—like Emma Readers will see that this child abDonoghue’s Room and M. L. Sted- duction is original and refreshing
man’s
The
Light
Between compared
to
other
similar
Oceans—is an utterly immersive reads. The ending of this psychoSynopsis:
story that’s impossible to put logical thriller is a twist that readdown . . . and impossible to forget. ers won't see coming. It is abso-
Newly, single mom, Beth has one
constant, gnawing worry: that her
lutely remarkable on how Kate
Rating: 5 stars
Hamer delivers readers a heart-
dreamy eight-year-old daughter,
Carmel, who has a tendency to
pounding novel that will keep
Review:
readers on the edge of their seats.
wander off, will one day go missing.
The title of this masterpiece ties in
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate perfectly with the ending. The Girl
Hamer is phenomenal. Brilliantly in the Red Coat is Kate Hamer's
And then one day, it happens: On well-written...and
highly
sus- debut novel, and I loved it. After
a Saturday morning thick with fog, penseful, readers won't want to reading this book, I look forward
Beth takes Carmel to a local out- stop reading this story. From the to reading more by this talented
door festival, they get separated in very first page, Kate Hamer has writer. This read will open readers
the crowd, and Carmel is gone.
already taken readers hearts and eyes to the deeper part of experimind into the most luring read of encing one's child abduction.
Shattered, Beth sets herself on the all time. Readers will connect fast Something that no child or parent
grim and lonely mission to find and easy with the mother
should ever have to encounter.
her daughter, keeping on relent- who...has lost her daughter. A Most children never make it back
lessly even as the authorities tell daughter who was only eight years
home alive. Overall, I highly recher that Carmel may be gone for old. The mother's worry and fear
ommend this to readers worldgood.
become the reader's the instant wide.
they open this book.
Carmel,
meanwhile,
is
on
So many
a years go on by and the mother's