"Rumours are like seeds, scattered on the wind. There’s no telling where they’ll land, but land they will. Settling in cracks and crevices, the roots take hold. The seeds sprout. It doesn’t matter if they’re true or false. The more times they’re spoken, the faster and stronger they grow."

It starts with a rumour. Whispers at the school gate...
Joanna is a single mom who is trying to fit in the new community. In order to make friends with the other moms so her son would be invited to their children’s birthdays, she repeats something she has heard from another mother. “Has anyone heard of Sally McGowan?”
Rumour has it that the notorious child killer is living in their small town. Sally stabbed a five year old boy to death when she was ten. Now she is living under a new identity.
But Joanna soon realizes that rumours spread quickly and there is nothing one can do to stop them.
That rumours can kill.

The Rumour is a suspenseful and gripping read with some really shocking twists