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A missing girl.
A murdered friend.
No one left to trust.
‘Seriously good suspense … trust me, you’ll need to know what happens’ Lee Child
‘Superb characterisation, humour and galloping plot’ Susie Steiner
‘This is that deeply satisfying thing, a strong, deft thriller with real depth’ Tana French
Detective Inspector Robin Lyons is going home.
Dismissed for misconduct from the Met’s Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills (or hold down a relationship), she has no choice but to take her teenage daughter Lennie and move back in with her parents in the city she thought she’d escaped forever at 18.
In Birmingham, sharing a bunkbed with Lennie and navigating the stormy relationship with her mother, Robin works as a benefit-fraud investigator – to the delight of those wanting to see her cut down to size.
Only Corinna, her best friend of 20 years seems happy to have Robin back. But when Corinna’s family is engulfed by violence and her missing husband becomes a murder suspect, Robin can’t bear to stand idly by as the police investigate. Can she trust them to find the truth of what happened? And why does it bother her so much that the officer in charge is her ex-boyfriend – the love of her teenage life?
As Robin launches her own unofficial investigation and realises there may be a link to the disappearance of a young woman, she starts to wonder how well we can really know the people we love – and how far any of us will go to protect our own.
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My Review:
I’ve been a huge fan of this author since I read her first book when it was featured on Richard and Judy’s book club, so I was very excited to be offered an early copy of her latest book to read. I was not disappointed as this was another engrossing and thoroughly intriguing read.
This book has quite a complicated plot in that there is a few different threads running alongside each other so there is always lots going on. I didn’t find this overly confusing though and found it quite easy to follow each story as it develops.
The most interesting part of this book for me was the way the reader gets to follow the main character Robin both through her investigation but also in her home life and her difficult move back home following her suspension. I especially enjoyed the descriptions of Robin’s relationship with her mother which was definitely a complicated one as they drive each other mad but still love each other and want a better relationship between them. I have to admit to not being a huge fan of Robin’s at the start as I found her very opinionated and quite a selfish person who always thinks she knew best which meant it took a while for me to warm to her.
This is a slightly unusual police procedural as due to her suspension Robin isn’t able to have access to certain things and isn’t able to command the same authority in her investigation. It was very interesting to see her try to adapt and change how she works.
I thought this was a very well written book which had lots going on to keep the reader interested. The tension is slowly built up until the book becomes almost impossible to put down. There are lots of twist which I thought were very cleverly thought out and took me by surprise which I always enjoy. I will definitely look forward to reading more of this intriguing new series.
Huge thanks to Martina from Midas PR for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
Lucie Whitehouse was born in Gloucestershire in 1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of The House at Midnight, the TV Book Club pick The Bed I Made and Before We Met, which was a Richard & Judy Summer Book Club pick and an ITV3 Crime Thriller selection.
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