Fast paced but convoluted tale. I didn't really get interested in any of the characters.

Ok I wasn't sure... I've read Before the Crash and Black Water Lilies was my favourite read of 2016 but I still had my doubts. I'm not sure whether it was the cultural differences, the language or what but, a couple of chapters I. I still wasn't sure. The writing is strong, the plot intriguing and then... and then something gripped me and I ended up reading this flat out over the course of a day.
This isn't a straightforward read. It is an intelligent read full of the flavours and scents of a combined race full of the racial, cultural differences found in a small island community whatever the flag it flies under. The plot is convoluted. A man, a history, a missing child, a dead child. All a tangle and all down to two cops to untangle. Miss Marple is mentioned and there is an Agatha Christie undercurrent of things being not just what they seem. Something just on the corner of the page always implied but not unravelled until the end. If you like the psychological reads that are filling the top shelves of WH Smith this beats them all...