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Midsummer, and in an unassuming house on a quiet residential street on the edge of Brockwell Park in south London, a husband and wife are discovered. Badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten, the husband is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing.
When DI Jack Caffery of the Met's AMIT squad is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment. And as Jack digs deeper, as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both the past and the present, the real nightmare begins...
Better than the last one, a lot darker too. Had one chapter that was the most terrifying thing I've read in some time, wish there was more of it. The characters aren't that interesting but the story makes up for it. Most reveals in the book were delivered in an anticlimactic way. 3/5.
I think I might read one of Pat's books next, wish me luck.
When DI Jack Caffery of the Met's AMIT squad is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment. And as Jack digs deeper, as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both the past and the present, the real nightmare begins...
Better than the last one, a lot darker too. Had one chapter that was the most terrifying thing I've read in some time, wish there was more of it. The characters aren't that interesting but the story makes up for it. Most reveals in the book were delivered in an anticlimactic way. 3/5.
I think I might read one of Pat's books next, wish me luck.