What did happen to Joanie?
4 stars No one does darkly ominous quite like Francine Toon. In Bluff the atmosphere is deliciously unsettled, leading the reader to align with Cameron, who questions what happened to Joanie, A school friend who disappeared after the end of school. A big party at the close of their final school year, before the student friends scatter in the wind off to university and beyond, was the last time Cameron saw Joanie. Ten years later he is back home in Fife trying to locate her. In parallel the story of what transpired ten years ago is narrated by Joanie. From the off the reader is on edge looking for the pivotal moment when Joanie fell off the radar. We are fed snippets of important information and I was seeing the boogie man around every dark corner. Needless to say, the story develops in a subtle, gentle way as we watch events unfold. It wasn't what I expected and that great misdirection is a real treat. Pine, her previous novel gave much the same feeling of creeping dread, trademar...
