Coming to Find You by Jane Corry

4 Stars from me

I’ve read and loved several of Jane Corry‘s books,  so was excited to read this one. Coming to Find You centres around Nancy and her desire to hide away from life, death, and the press, in the old family home known as ‘Tall Chimneys’. This brings her to the Devonshire coast, where she plans to retreat and restore herself among old family memories and out of the public gaze.

Tall Chimney’s has quite the past and the story follows three threads, Nancy’s timeline, Elizabeth’s wartime story in 1941, and also ‘the night of the murder’. The flitting between these just made me read quicker and I found that just as I was fully immersed in one thread, the author would move the story onto one of the other strands – as clever as it was frustrating but it built the tension well.

The wartime aspect added a historical slant to what would otherwise be a whodunnit style thriller, and I loved the story of Elizabeth and the children and their teacher that she gave a home to during the war – that whole thread was great.

For me, I read this keeping the title in mind – who is coming to find who? Nancy has a step-brother and an ex-fiance and I was intrigued to see how they would feature as the story unfolded.

It is all cleverly pulled together in the end and overall this was an engaging and thought-provoking read.

Blurb: You can run away from your life. But you can’t run away from murder.

When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers, Nancy decides to disappear. Her grandmother’s beautiful Regency house in a quiet seaside village seems like the safest place to hide. But the old house has its own secrets and a chilling wartime legacy . . .

Now someone knows the truth about the night Nancy’s mother and stepfather were murdered. Someone knows where to find her. And they have nothing to lose . . .

So what really happened that night? And how far will she go to keep it hidden?