Disappointing. There are so many points of view in the novel, and they sometimes switch so rapidly that you feel punch drunk as you are flipped from one person’s thoughts and perspective to another.The main characters are perhaps Suzanne Milner and D.I. Steve McCarthy but there are at least another half a dozen points of view – some of them very minor characters – it is as if Reah feels she has created all these people and wants to be fair to all of them, give them all a turn. She even finishes the novel rather flatly on the perspective of a minor character whose point of view had not been introduced before, and for whom the reader cares little and so is left bemused. Reah fails to make her characters real: you never really understand their motivations and they behave in bizarre unexplained ways that don't seem credible. On the plus side she does build tension quite well. Full review at: http://stevek1889.blogspot.co.uk/2014...
