Publication date 17th August 2017
What if your perfect home turned out to be the scene of the perfect crime?
Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the house a year ago. It seemed like their dream home: tons of space, the perfect location, and a friendly owner who wanted a young couple to have it.
So when they made a grisly discovery in the attic, Jack and Syd chose to ignore it. That was a mistake.
Because someone has just been murdered. Right outside their back door.
And now the police are watching them...
Londoners Jack and Syd moved into the house a year ago. It seemed like their dream home: tons of space, the perfect location, and a friendly owner who wanted a young couple to have it.
So when they made a grisly discovery in the attic, Jack and Syd chose to ignore it. That was a mistake.
Because someone has just been murdered. Right outside their back door.
And now the police are watching them...
My Review:
Personally I am finding this book really difficult to review without totally spoiling the storyline for anyone. The author has woven such an intricate web of a plot throughout that even early events have huge influence in the overall tale.
Jack and Sydney are amazed to be the winning bidders on a house which they never began to imagine they would be able to afford. Syd loves the house, despite the fact that the reason it came so cheap is because the house comes with all the previous owner’s unwanted hoarded possessions. Jack isn’t so sure and gets bad vibes when they move in, and one chapter in particular had my heart beating out of my chest and not wanting to turn off the bedroom light, wondering whether the book was maybe going to take a more supernatural turn.
From there on strange events start happening in Jack’s work life, and Syd makes an unlikely friendship with a young girl who lives nearby. At this point in the story I felt like I had a jigsaw puzzle in my hands rather than a book, with lots of seemingly unrelated things happening which really didn’t make much sense. This isn’t to say that it is badly written – completely the opposite in fact. It is so cleverly brought together in the last quarter of the book that I realised just how much information had been drip-fed along the way, but in a way that as a reader you have completely mis-used the facts to try and work out where the author is leading you.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this tale which includes murder, corruption, abuse of position, safeguarding issues to list just a few. It leaves you thinking about whether justice was done for everyone involved and whether you are comfortable with the result. I think the conclusion will divide opinion, which is why I would definitely recommend this as a book club choice as there are so many contentious issues to discuss.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Penguin UK for the advance copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.
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