The sequel to Dead Time. Another book; same characters; new mystery. Is it better? Absolutely.

Rose and Joshua are still looking for their parents, now convinced that their deaths were nothing but a lie covering up a much larger-scale truth.

On a hunt using a set of books with code found in the house of Frank Richards, the murder notebooks as a key, and a former police officer who was a friend of Rose and Joshua's parents, the two set out to make sense of it all. But can Frank be trusted? And can the notebooks possibly be related to Rose and Joshua's parents deaths anyway? Wouldn't that be too much of a coincidence?
Even with the chaos of the seemingly never-ending search, Rose is distracted by letters and phone calls from Rachel Bliss, a girl who used to be Rose's friend. A girl who messed with Rose's head in ways that she had tried to forget. Once Rachel is dead, however, found drowned in a lake at Mary Linton high school, Rose finds her impossible to overlook.

In the meantime, Joshua finds a small cottage in what looked to Rose like the middle-of-nowhere. Joshua, however, sees some potential for this small cottage to give the pair new answers.
Throughout this build-up of tension, Rose begins to feel confused about her feelings for Joshua and begins to think that, since her mother and his father were never married, those feelings were not so unacceptable.

The entire story is full to the brim with suspense, action and constant conspiracy over the happenings of Rachel's death. No doubt the reader will be forever playing detective - working out motives of different suspicious characters and how they might have had the opportunity to carry out the crime. Amongst it all is the mystery of what had happened to Rose and Joshua's parents: are they really alive and, when the police finally come with the answers, is there more to it?
I found every chapter mesmerising. I find myself unable to criticise the book.

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