'Kala' by Colin Walsh

Well, I had a whole post about this, but Squarespace ate it and I can’t be bothered to write it again.

This is a pretty good thriller, albeit without the most original premise. Old friends reunite in their hometown, haunted by the disappearance of a childhood friend when they were teenagers.

I’d tried a couple of duds on my Kindle and was very pleased when I found this. It cracks along and the characterisation is pretty good.

Buy ‘Kala’ by Colin Walsh at bookshop.org

Excerpt

…at one point I made a comment about Auntie Pauline’s softness, and Rossie said, ‘It only looks like softness from outside.’ We kept working. But a few minutes later he piped up again and said, ‘It takes strength to be that delicate.’