ReviewThis book hooks you in - Fiona Sharp,satisfying story and just that bit different from many others,Bookwitch Book BlogDishing up a story rich in mystery, heartbreak, family drama, friendship crises, more mystery and a cast of characters that will hold your attention! Alison Rattle has given me my favourite mystery book of the year so far!. He's got a secret, and Violet's got a dreadful feeling it might be the worst kind of secret of all. He's weird, and she feels sure he's hiding something. Suddenly life is horrifyingly much more interesting.Violet can't believe its coincidence that Joseph turns up just as girls start getting murdered. And then Violet's best friend disappears too. Then young girls start going missing, and turning up murdered. Joseph, her long-lost brother, comes home.

He blows up Violet's grey little life, and she can't believe her luck.But things don't go her way for long. Beau's a Rocker - a motorcycle boy who arrives in an explosion of passion and rebellion. And it doesn't look like fame and fortune are going to come calling anytime soon.Then she meets Beau.

She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe - an auspicious start, but now she's just stuck in her family's fish and chip shop dreaming of greatness. The world is changing - but not for sixteen-year-old Violet. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties.

The Quietness by Alison Rattle