Gripping and captivating. Keeps you interested throughout the book. Very enjoyable read.

Excellent book. Great main characters and plot. I would recommend this book.

This book could well have been ahead of it's time - set in the late 1980's with a retired police detective looking at an old case? Whilst the characters were well drawn and somewhat believable, the book is too short for me. Lovely use of the English language, though..

Review
We are introduced to retired police detective Richard Patton as the book opens and it is immediately clear that he is most definitely not the sort of character who can sit by and allow everyone else to investigate a possible miscarriage of justice 10 years prior.
As the story unfolds, the supposed murderer approaches Patton for help in clearing his name. Patton is an honourable man and decides he will try to (re)solve the case despite being warned off by the present Detective Superintendent, who believes that a deathbed confession of tampering with evidence is only the tip of the iceberg. The waters are further muddied when the widow of this detective appears, demanding that Patton help prove the guilt of the previously incarcerated Caine.

Through various twists, we are introduced to a web of characters, whose stories intertwine at various points. This leads to many possible suspects and motives, all the while the real killer is around….

By halfway through the book i had decided on who the killer was, but there are enough twists to keep you guessing.

The characters are very three-dimensional and I found myself rooting for Patton and his longsuffering wife.

The story itself is fast-paced and kept me interested, I read it in two sittings (only broken as i had promised OH that i would watch a movie with him!)

Ratings & recommendations

I rate this book a total 4 out of 5 stars



I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good old-fashioned who-dunnit, and would describe it as more of a mystery than a crime thriller.

This book took some getting into and honestly it didn't grab my attention. I was not aware it was Book 8 in a series and maybe I needed to read others first, I'm not sure. It wasn't a bad read at all but maybe just not for me