Today I’m back with the Jack Jordan blogathon and I’m sharing my review of Before Her Eyes. It’s written with thanks to Tracy Fenton for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for my copy of the book.

Blurb:

She can’t see the killer
But the killer can see her…


Naomi Hannah has been blind since birth. Struggling with living in a small, claustrophobic town, Naomi contemplates ending her life. But then she stumbles across the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. She senses someone else there at the scene – watching her. Naomi may not be able to see the killer’s face, but she is still the only person who can identify him.


As the police begin hunting the person responsible and more victims are discovered, Naomi is forced to answer the question on which her fate hangs: why did the killer let her live?

In a town this small, the murderer must be close, perhaps even before her very eyes…

Review:

I’ve loved being part of this blogathon so far, and Before Her Eyes is no exception. The prologue made sure I was hooked straight away and I really wanted to know more about what had happened.

Unlike the other novels I’ve read for this blogathon, Before Her Eyes focuses on the police investigation and I really enjoyed this aspect of the novel. The detectives in this department don’t get on well, and most of them are quite unlikeable, and I loved the tension between them. There are hints of corruption in the past and I really wanted Marcus to get to the bottom of this, despite the efforts of the rest of the team.

Before Her Eyes is set in the small village of Balkerne Heights. The small, close knit nature of the community means that the characters all know each other quite well and a lot of them have much closer connections than they would like to admit. This makes solving the mystery incredibly interesting as all the suspects have secrets.

The protagonist of Before Her Eyes is Naomi, and I warmed to her quite quickly as her difficult upbringing, mental health issues and her visual impairment made me feel sympathetic towards her. However, I recognise that her visual impairment and mental health difficulties potentially makes her an unreliable witness, so I often wondered if her version of events was the truth and this kept me on my toes as the story unravelled. I loved how Jack Jordan handled this in such a sensitive way.

I love it when an author leaves a story open ended and I definitely have a lot to think about after finishing Before Her Eyes.

Before Her Eyes is available from Amazon.

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