Instagram star Natalie believes her husband is having an affair, but as soon as she arrives at the holiday cottages in remote Shanamore, Cork, where she believes the lovers' tryst took place, she wishes she had stayed at home in Dublin.
There is something very creepy about the manager of the cottages and she is sure he is lying about what he knows, but she cannot leave until she knows the truth.
Andrew, the manager of the Shanamore Cottages has plenty to hide. At night he watches his guests on cameras hidden in the bedrooms, until the one night when a shadowy figure appears on the video feed and kills one of his patrons. Andrew must keep the crime secret, or risk losing it all.
Audrey is a journalist looking into the disappearance of Natalie and has traced her movements to the remote Shanamore, where she unknowingly books into the same cottage where Natalie stayed. Can she solve the mystery of Natalie's disappearance?
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Rewind is a highly original and compelling story about a murder caught on camera. It plays heavily on the concept of secret recordings and splits the story into different timelines using the appropriate terminology - REWIND for Natalie's story; FAST FORWARD and PLAY for the present; and PAUSE for the "other woman" - with a final STOP at the conclusion. This works brilliantly well and means you can never forget that this revolves around the recording of a murder.
There are wonderful echoes of Psycho about this book, with enough of the Lolitas to turn your stomach too, and it will totally creep you out!
The story builds the tension gradually and I loved how it unfolds by jumping between the different timelines. I did think the end was a little rushed and would have liked to see the conclusion played out a little longer (pardon the pun), but maybe this is because I did not want it to end and is actually a compliment to the writing skills of Catherine Ryan Howard!
It is hard to say very much about the story without giving away spoliers, which I am not going to do, but suffice to say that this is absolutely gripping and it will terrify you every time you have to stay in a hotel or holiday let in the future.....and will make you think again about what you post on Instagram!!!
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