No One Saw a Thing: The twisty and unputdownable new crime thriller for 2023 from the bestselling author of All Her Fault

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The premise of this book was both tantalising and unnerving for me as a parent of young children (one of whom is a four year old boy just like the young child at the centre of this novel). No One Saw a Thing is a very fast-paced and layered thriller. Crossing timelines, Andrea Mara creates a complex web of deception and lies, with red herrings aplenty, baiting the reader and successfully leaving you flummoxed on more than one occasion. There is an intensity to this tale, a fear-inducing panic that refuses to die down as the tension ramps up and more secrets are revealed. Highly recommended if you like psychological thrillers or want to read something that is very well written.

Like Aaron in No One saw A Thing, Mara has friendships that span many years. But are any as competitive as the ones in her book? “No”, she says, but she understands how it can happen. Tras la trama principal se esconde un debate social bastante activo: el rol de la mujer en la sociedad y las exigencias que conlleva, el cuidado de los hijos, las apariencias, el pertenecer a un grupo, ... By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one.No One Saw a Thing is a very fast-paced and layered thriller. Crossing timelines, Andrea Mara creates a complex web of deception and lies, with red herrings aplenty, baiting the reader and successfully leaving you flummoxed on more than one occasion. There is an intensity to this tale, a fear-inducing panic that refuses to die down as the tension ramps up and more secrets are revealed. Was becoming a writer and getting those “what ifs and dark stories” ideas down on paper something Mara always envisaged doing? No One Saw a Thing begins with a nightmare scenario for any parent. The doors of a train on London’s Underground close before a mother can get on to join her two small children who are already on board. Andrea Mara’s inspiration for this latest novel came from an incident during her own childhood when she and her younger sister became separated from her parents on a family visit to London. It really is the most frightening situation for both parent and child. Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find...

This sharply observed novel manages to be at once an intricate puzzle and an involving race against time' The Sunday Times A fast paced psychological thriller that had me on the edge of my seat. Unnerving and unsettling to read as a parent but utterly unputdownable - I was gripped from the very start. One of the things I love about Andrea's stories is that there's an authenticity and realness about the scenarios her characters find themselves in (this one in particular was based on a real life event that happened to her and her sister when they were children). She plays on a parents biggest fear and turns it into a tense and compelling read with plenty of twists and turns that make it impossible to put down. I won't say anything about the plot as I don't want to give a thing away but I think this is up there as one of my favourites from Andrea to date! Si hay algo que valoro en este género es la sorpresa, y este libro lo ha conseguido. La autora ha ido desmontando mis hipótesis conforme avanzaba en cada capítulo. So thankyou, yet again, for another riveting read. There are quite a few characters to get your head round and the timeline jumps around a fair bit but it won't take you long to get into the swing and then I defy anyone to put the book down until the end

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This is every parent’s nightmare. Sive and her husband, high flying criminal barrister Aaron Sullivan, were in London for a reunion with Aaron’s former flat mates of 20 years ago, but now their whole world has come tumbling down. The book begins with every parents' worst nightmare. You are getting on the underground and suddenly the doors close with your children on the other side of the doors....you watch as the train leaves the station whilst you are still on the platform with your newborn son...you finally get on the next train and get off to see your children waiting for you....however only one child is waiting and she can't tell you what happened to her sister..... Los secundarios tampoco tienen desperdicio. El trío de padres que critican en las puertas del colegio a la entrada y salida son para echarles de comer aparte. En más de un momento pensé que si la Sarah se mordiera sin querer la lengua, se envenenaba fijo. Corrosiva es poco. Adeline, la suegra de Jenny es otra que también destila veneno por todos sus poros. Irene es la madre tóxica por excelencia. No ve nada positivo en una hija que no quiso tener y a la que siempre ha considerado una carga. Es mezquina e interesada, dispuesta a vender su historia al mejor postor.

In the book, some of the characters ask Sive what it’s like to be a stay-at-home mum – to not have to worry about work. This too is drawn from real life. I have clear memories of people telling me they envied me having so much free time, when I was working full-time hours with no childcare.”El tema en sí no es novedoso: la desaparición de un menor, pero sí la manera de estructurar la historia y crear una trama estable e inteligente. El inicio es algo lento para mi gusto, pero entiendo que es la presentación de los personajes y su desarrollo emocional en la trama. A partir de la segunda parte es imposible soltar el libro y en la tercera, mejor tener tiempo porque querréis leerla del tirón. It was really just for therapy, to get it out of my system. To come home from work and let it all out on the laptop. I kind of became a bit obsessed with it. It was like discovering a new love.

What follows is her tense, terrifying search to find her lost child, with alternate chapters detailing a reunion of her husband's friends that she attended several days earlier. The husband's a lawyer, defending some very dodgy people. Did they abduct her child? Or are her husband's friends keeping dark secrets? Has your other daughter got lost? Been taken by a passing stranger? Or perhaps the culprit is closer to home than you think? No one is telling the truth, and the longer the search continues, the harder she will be to find… Jenny es el arquetipo de la esposa a la que su marido y suegra culpabilizan de forma implacable por trabajar fuera de casa y tener una niñera. Es reticente a tener un segundo bebé, ya que tal y como le dice a su esposo en un momento en el que estalla, tener dos hijos representará para ella el doble de trabajo y para él quedarse igual que está.

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Sive and her three children are standing on a crowded tube platform waiting to board. Her two eldest daughters jump on the train but as she tries to wangle the buggy with he youngest, the doors close and the trains takes off. Sive rushes to the next stop telling herself that things will be okay but when she reaches the next platform, only one of her daughters is there. As the police investigate Milo’s disappearance, it’s suspected that his friend’s nanny has taken him. Marissa clings to the hope that she is keeping him safe and looking after him, but things soon begin to take a dark turn. It isn’t clear what the kidnapper’s motive is, and they soon find out that she knows dangerous people. This then begins to suggest that there could be a much more sinister motive. Marissa’s fear comes through very strongly, and I thought that Andrea Mara wrote this very well. The rest of the book is the frantic search by parents Sive and Aaron to find out where she is, who has taken her and why.