I am trying to read books that I have requested from Netgalley and have slipped through the cracks and I have got embarrassingly late to read and review. This is one of them and I apologise to the author and the publisher for the inordinate delay.
The story is confusion from the word go. Jemma confesses to her wanting to murder someone at the local police station, at the exact moment that the woman was murdered. It takes off from there. The Detectives do not know whether they are dealing with an eccentric woman or a cold blooded killer who thinks she has now developed a cast iron alibi.
A puzzle from the inception, we try to fit the crime to suspects, but that does not quite make it. There are many under currents of emotional, relationships which are skewed, no logic to arguments and the possible becomes unbelievable and one begins to think the implausible and ridiculous to be quite plausible. To the end, one questions each character so that the story remains tightly closed till the end.
This is a story one has to read slowly.
Sent by Hodder & Stoughton for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
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