“Adeline had always heard the saying that the devil you know

I mean, would you want to be sent to prison or would you rather face your chances of surviving with the world’s ancient, ferocious and deadly animals? It may seem far-fetched or erring on the ridiculous side to have the most dangerous criminals sent back to the time of dinosaurs but looking more deeply, Absolom revolutionised the world, and crime rates instantly plummeted. Everyone around her is a suspect, everyone holds secrets, and what Adeline eventually uncovers changes everything. As the novel progresses Adeline plunges into an all consuming quest to prove her father’s innocence, to discover a way to bring him back. Whilst Sam prepares for his fate, his daughter Adeline refuses to accept it. All in all it is a terrifying death sentence, a punishment with too many unknowns. This machine will send Sam back in time to the Triassic period, the era of dinosaurs. Yet this is the future, and in the future the world’s worst criminals aren’t sent to prison, they’re sent through the Absolom machine. In an attempt to save his daughter, Sam confesses to the murder. As the evidence mounts, Sam soon realises he and Adeline are certainly going to be convicted. On the third anniversary of his wife’s death, Sam and his daughter, Adeline, are accused of murdering Sam’s colleague and lover, Nora. Sam Anderson is a widowed father raising two children in Absolom City. Riddle dramatically plunged me into a murder mystery, quite like nothing I’ve read before. Riddle is a fantastic blend of sci-fi, time travel and thriller that works perfectly to grab its readers right from the very first chapter. In a way, even before Absolom sent him to this place, he had been lost in time. What he couldn’t do in his own time: he faced the fact that he had been mentally stuck.

“Lying there in the sand, in this prehistoric time, he finally did

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