Your Child Next by MJ Arlidge and Andy Maslen is an interesting combination of writers to create this book. The storyline is of two victims in a blackmail scheme who combine efforts to trace the people responsible for the blackmail scheme. The blackmailed victims of the scheme have to pay £1000.00 per month by standing order to a Cayman Island bank account.
Michael’s wife died of a brain tumour and he and his adopted son, Aaron have both been struggling. Michael sees a bank transfer for £1000.00 per month going out of her own bank account and cannot find what it is for, so he cancels it. Then a few days later his son is targeted and almost run over by a white van.
Meanwhile Anna and her daughter, Isla are also struggling after a messy divorce. Then Isla is followed by a scruffy individual and manages to take his picture before escaping. Anna then is told if. she wants to see her daughter alive she must pay a standing order of £1000.00 per month. The one thing both Aaron and Isla have in common is that they both go to the same therapist.
Maya, one of the blackmailers works as a receptionist at the therapist offices and gets all the different details on future parents who would make suitable blackmail victims. She and her brother, Ollie have worked different blackmail schemes over the years. Ollie though is becoming increasingly
violent and unpredictable.
An interesting storyline with strong characters and tense drama. I enjoyed reading this book.
Highly recommended