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Araminta HallFiction · Thriller
One of the Good Guys
Cole believes he is a good husband. He is romantic, backs his wife Mel's career, wants to be a hands-on father and barely drinks. When Mel leaves him, he is floored, convinced she was lucky to have him.
Wanting solitude, Cole takes a job on the coast and settles quickly into a new routine. There he meets Lennie, a reclusive artist who has made a similar move for similar reasons. She lives in a crumbling cottage at the edge of a cliff, a location that is undeniably frightening.
As Cole and Lennie grow closer, two young women disappear while on a walk protesting gendered violence, close to where both of them live. The police open an investigation and the media descend on the area. Cole and Lennie are at the centre of it.
Under that scrutiny, each begins to see how little they know the other. The question hanging over the cliff-top cottage is what the disappearances will show about a man who is sure he is one of the good guys.