The Secret Voices

 

The Secret Voices by MJ White (Cora Lael#1) - Crime           

A young girl has gone missing in the town where not so long ago, a young boy went missing and then his body was found. The Police really don’t want the same thing to happen. Acting DS Rob Minshull has his hands full- his first major case in the role. Alternate chapters tell us of Hannah and “ the small space”- somewhere she is stuck and really wants to go home. Cora works at the university- where a close friend is studying her emotional synesthesia as part of a study. (she can sense emotions from objects). She is getting bored of the repetitive experiments and would relish something different. When her boss suggests that she could use her gift to help the police, she gets more than the challenge that she was after.

I quickly got into this and enjoyed it being a different crime read. Emotional synesthesia isn't apparently a real thing, despite being a small number of studies on this, colour synesthesia is the real one. I liked Minshull and Cora and how they worked together and the pressure from above kept things on the move. A storyline that keeps twisting with well written tension to keep the pages easily turning.

This is MJ White’s first venture into crime  (better known As Miranda Dickinson) and what a stunner this is! A wonderful, entertaining read. A change in genre (not always easy) has proved to be an excellent move and I look forward to more in the series. 

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The Secret Voices They said they’d keep me safe. They said, ‘It’s okay, Hannah. You know you can trust me.’ They lied. When eight-year-old Hannah Perry goes missing in the small Suffolk village of St Just, the community is rocked. Heading up the investigation is Acting DS Rob Minshull, but he’s out of his depth in a case that seems to mirror the disappearance of a young boy, seven years ago. That search ended in unimaginable tragedy…and Minshull is praying that history won’t be repeated. But with an investigation full of dead ends, and a kidnapper taunting the police with sinister deliveries of Hannah’s belongings and cryptic notes, the young girl’s life hangs perilously in danger. Until Dr Cora Lael enters the picture. A psychologist with a unique ability, Cora’s rare gift allows her to sense emotions attached to discarded objects. When she is shown the first of Hannah’s belongings, she hears the child’s piercing scream. With few leads on the case, could Cora prove Hannah’s only hope? And as time runs out, can they find Hannah before history repeats itself...? A twisty, original and utterly gripping detective thriller that fans of James Oswald and LJ Ross will love. Don't miss the crime thriller debut from the bestselling women's fiction author, Miranda Dickinson.

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Author Bio – MJ White is the crime pen name of the internationally bestselling author Miranda Dickinson. To date she has sold over one million books worldwide and has been translated into sixteen languages. Miranda has always been a huge fan of crime fiction and The Secret Voices marks the start of a new and exciting departure for her writing. https://twitter.com/MJWhite13