Publication Date: February 24, 2025
‘Is that you, darling?’ A second of silence before her son replies. ‘It wasn’t me’. Her heart breaks at the pain in his voice – he sounds like a little boy again. Thirty minutes later, the police knock at the door. ‘Your son’s girlfriend is dead.’ And Dan has disappeared.
It’s almost midnight when Jennifer sees her son’s name flash up on her phone. Away at university, she’s normally so happy when he calls. But something is terribly wrong…
Jennifer is devastated for poor Ella’s family – losing their precious girl, so young. She knows her sweet son, just twenty years old, would never, ever harm anyone. But the police are looking for him. And if Dan is innocent, why has he run?
When Jennifer hears how Ella died, her blood runs cold. Because Jennifer’s best friend was murdered twenty years ago the same way. In the same place. Jennifer hasn’t been back since… but now, she has no choice.
She would do anything for her son. Any mother would. But how far will she have to go – what secrets in her own past will she have to confront – to prove Dan is innocent?
And what if the truth is worse than she ever imagined?
An absolutely gripping thriller you won’t be able to put down! Fans of John Marrs, The Perfect Marriage and T.M. Logan will be totally addicted.
Jennifer Farley’s life turns upside down with a cryptic call from her college son, followed up with a visit from the police.
Author Kerry Wilkinson delivers plenty of suspense in My Son’s Girlfriend. Aside from Daniel telling his mom it wasn’t him, all Jennifer knows is his girlfriend is dead. To get more details means she will have to return to the university campus and the events that have haunted her for more than two decades.
The storyline shifts between past and present so readers can see the connection. As Jennifer pulls at various threads, she re-opens memories. Soon, Jennifer faces danger at the hands of an unknown person.
Since the story is set in England and written in British English, some of the vocabulary is unfamiliar. However, the context clues help translate the basic meaning.
The author packs plenty of emotional angst into the story, whether it’s the mother-son relationship, the husband-wife relationship, or the strained friendships from the past.
My Son’s Girlfriend details a mother’s search for answers in trying to find her son and determine what really happened to his girlfriend.
Kerry Wilkinson is from the English county of Somerset but has spent far too long living in the north. It’s there that he’s picked up possibly made-up regional words like ‘barm’ and ‘ginnel’. He pretends to know what they mean.
He’s also been busy since turning thirty: his Jessica Daniel crime series has sold more than a million copies in the UK; he has written a fantasy-adventure trilogy for young adults; a second crime series featuring private investigator Andrew Hunter and the standalone thriller, Down Among The Dead Men.
