One of the Good Guys

Author/Guide: Araminta Hall

Why a Booktrail?

2023: If most men say they’re one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night?

ISBN: 978-1035018109
Genre: Crime

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What you need to know before your trail

Cole is the perfect husband: a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel’s career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.

So when Mel leaves him, he’s floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.

Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie.

Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby cliff. It’s an undeniably scary location, but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them.

As their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, it soon becomes clear that they don’t know each other very well at all.

This is what happens when women have had enough . . .

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Cornwall to Kent

The women in the novel are planning to walk the entire South Coast to raise awareness of issues affecting women – violence in the home, random attacks on the streets and everything in between. There are a few places in London mentioned where some of the women live, but this is not a book where location is key. That’s the point – violence against women sadly happens anywhere and this focuses on that and the characters.