Title: The Text
Author: Claire Douglas
Series:
Pages: 40
Release Date: August 31st 2017
Series:
Pages: 40
Release Date: August 31st 2017
Genre: Mystery Crime
Publisher: Penguin
Source: Amazon
Format: Kindle
Publisher: Penguin
Source: Amazon
Format: Kindle
Buy it: Amazon
Add it: Goodreads
Synopsis: **A free kindle short from Sunday Times bestselling author. Order her newest full length novel, Last Seen Alive, now!**
Synopsis: **A free kindle short from Sunday Times bestselling author. Order her newest full length novel, Last Seen Alive, now!**
A single text changed her life. Did it end his?
Emily Latimer is furious. Her boss Andrew is being so unreasonable, as always. She fires off a text to her boyfriend, only in her haste she sends it to her whole office group.
In it she says Andrew's being difficult about letting her have time off work. That she is angry. That she hopes he dies. The next day her face burns in the office. No one believes her when she says it was a typo, she meant to say does. She hopes he does.
It's a nightmare. But it gets worse - Andrew doesn't turn up for work. And then the police come knocking. Because Andrew Burton has been murdered . . .
My Review: I got this for free on Amazon a while back and decided to read it as I was looking for something quick to read and I enjoyed it.
Emily is angry with her boss Andrew as he won't let her have some time off to go on holiday so on her way home she text's her boyfriend that she hope he does let her have time off only instead of writing does she writes dies and not only does she send the text to her boyfriend but she sends it to everyone at work.
Emily doesn't realise that she made a giant typo until later on and by some strange coincidence Andrew is murdered after the text is sent and no one believes her when she tells them it was a typo.
This story keeps people guessing and has a satisfying ending even though it is only 40 pages long. The author also manages to fit a lot into those 40 pages giving the readers plenty of suspects.
This short story is very realistic and could happen to anyone as I'm sure everyone has sent a message with typos (maybe not wishing someone dead though).
Emily is angry with her boss Andrew as he won't let her have some time off to go on holiday so on her way home she text's her boyfriend that she hope he does let her have time off only instead of writing does she writes dies and not only does she send the text to her boyfriend but she sends it to everyone at work.
Emily doesn't realise that she made a giant typo until later on and by some strange coincidence Andrew is murdered after the text is sent and no one believes her when she tells them it was a typo.
This story keeps people guessing and has a satisfying ending even though it is only 40 pages long. The author also manages to fit a lot into those 40 pages giving the readers plenty of suspects.
This short story is very realistic and could happen to anyone as I'm sure everyone has sent a message with typos (maybe not wishing someone dead though).
Currently Reading: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J. K. Rowling
Read in 2017: 3/35
Read in 2017: 3/35
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