This is a great reminder that no matter how alone or lost a person is feeling as they grieve, there are others who know what they are going through, and that there will eventually be some closure. If you are unsure how long your chosen reading is, set a timer on your phone or a stopwatch and read out the poem or passage. Turning the note over to Murray who is a retired detective he begins to investigate thinking that the couple just may have been murdered instead. Say, for example, that a position opens up at work and you ask a colleague whether they are going to apply. Simplicity Cremations is a trading style of Dignity Funerals Limited, a company registered in England (registered number 41598).

Unfortunately, back to the main characters, when the twists started coming, the story fell apart for me.The tiny community is her home, so the suspects are her neighbors, friends and family—and Ffion has her own secrets to protect.

Mackintosh’s three bar-raising psychological thrillers (starting with I Let You Go, 2016) have proven her adept at crafting compellingly flawed, authority-bucking characters and creating twists from the ripple effects of their relationships and personal issues, including abuse, mental illness, and alcoholism.If it’s your life partner and you have children together, you probably don’t want to make any rash decisions that you later regret. Tolkien’s books are packed with small poems and verses, with Roads Go Ever On being one of the more poignant passages spoken by Bilbo Baggins at numerous points throughout the series. You have to rethink and go back over all your opinions as well as where you thought the story was going. To make things even more complicated and overwhelming, Anna has herself just become a mother to a baby girl.