30 January 2025.
ISBN: 978-0-00854852-1 (PB)
A man in prison for crimes he did not commit, a respected police officer’s reputation at risk, and a vicious murderer still at large - and killing again.
Nadine Matheson’s tense thriller provides a scrupulously plotted series of disasters and difficulties, horrifying moments, and convincingly complex relationships.
The core of the narrative revolves around two sequences of events - the original crimes committed in 1995, and their investigation by then Detective Sergeant Rhimes, and then, twenty-five years later, when it looks as if the man convicted of those crimes will be exonerated. Gradually the police officers’ wish to protect the reputation of their dead colleague turns to a dreadful realisation - the man who was imprisoned was indeed innocent, and a brutal sexual killer is desperately trying to cover his tracks in a series of vicious murders.
Nadine
Matheson is a brilliant and compassionate author, and this is a
tightly-written, beautifully constructed story, with convincingly confused and
complicated characters you’ll want to spend time with.
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Reviewer:
Sarah Williams.
Sarah Williams has been a professional writer for most of her adult life. She started writing under the name of Sarah Matthews, publishing translations from the French, as well as children’s information books, school textbooks, and school editions of authors such as Conan Doyle and Mark Twain. Most recently, she turned to crime, and has published How to Write Crime Fiction (Robinson), a second edition of which is due in Spring 2025. There are also two crime novels in the offing.
Follow her on Substack at https://sarahwilliamsauthor.substack.com
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