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Hazel is staying at a seaside hotel with her partner Jonny and his teenage daughter Evie when a child goes missing, straight away Hazel is the chief suspect but she has always denied hurting Kirstie. Everybody knows about the Flower Girls and it’s hard to forget such an unforgivable crime, a crime taken out by a child no less. Child killers are both horrific and fascinating if we are honest with ourselves and the author plays on that as the drama unfolds, cleverly messing with perception and ultimately leaving the reader with a distinctly uneasy feeling.
Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. I listened to this one on Audible and the narration was excellent and added to my enjoyment of the story. This novel explored even more, including the reality of how a crime like this could have happened, how the media lies and changes people and the importance of not necessarily forgiveness but letting go.It’s not a new story – children committing horrific crime then years later the consequences of their actions still resonate- but Alice Clark-Platts tells it so well, with an underlying and unsettling sense of emotion that gets under your skin. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The more I kept thinking about it the more I realised that I didn’t want to give it 3 stars after all. It’s not that I necessarily need a happy ending, but I like a definite resolution and for some sense of right prevailing.
We get taken through a detective’s view who is working in the investigation for finding this missing toddler, as well as the point of view of the murdered toddler’s aunt who has been fighting for justice for 19 years, to make sure Laurel stays behind bars. We have a range of different images to be used on the front cover of your activity book – just let us know your image selection by using the drop-down menu. The Flower Girls is a disturbing but strangely compelling story and I’ll be interested to see what Alice Clark-Platts does next. Meanwhile Laurel is half-heartedly making another attempt at parole, but having never admitted her guilt or expressed remorse, the victims family, and many of the public, are adamantly opposed to this.Flash forward nineteen years to a cold winter day at a hotel where a young girl goes missing (but who is found quite quickly). You may find book reviews, chocolate sampling, adventures with squirrels, and a lot of tea drinking, happening here. She raises a number of pertinent issues, on evil and the debate between nature and nurture, morality, the influence attached to the court of public opinion, crime and punishment, and how far members of the media will go to get a story. It reminded me right away of the James Bulger case, and as if the horror of finding a murdered child isn't enough the brutal, merciless killers are children themselves. Without doubt, this is an uncomfortable read, but it is also a gripping and thought provoking read on a subject most people would not wish to dwell on.
There are 2 endings, one which I am sure many will guess as I did but then the last 2 pages have an abhorrent ending that ( and I read a lot! There are surprising twists as the Flower Girls once again come to connect, and we are given an unexpected ending. The present story of the missing child and the backstory run awkwardly and the twist that combines them will at least be speculatively foreseen by the experienced mystery story buff though hidden by a couple of really smelly red herrings.With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers! Personally, I think life without possibility of parole is worse than a death sentence, but given a criminal justice system where virtually all prosecutions are malicious, capital punishment is unconscionable as well. Each meticulously levelled PM Fiction title features a classic story structure complete with tension, climax and resolution.
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