An Alex Delaware and Milo Stugis murder mystery thriller, giving you the psychological thinking and the dogged police perspective.
As always the story is full of twists and turns with several very likely suspects all with dubious backgrounds and possible motives.
The opening chapter describing an 8 year old crime, that is the catalyst for the rest of the book, is quite familiar for those of us that remember the terrible murder of Jamie Bulger.
The description of that crime is very close to what happen to Jamie, but that is as far as the similarity goes within the rest of the story.
This murder leads to other deaths, crimes against young women and will lead to the revealing of some pretty unpleasant secrets.
Alex is involved as he consulted on the original case, at first it seems a simple request to Milo to ask a few questions and soon he and Milo are in too deep to stop.
Alex and Milo's characters have been well developed over the years of their collaboration in other books but even if this is the first you have read you will find plenty that explains who they are and how they are able to work so closely together.
The secondary players are also well developed with good descriptions of personality and character.
The story flows well leaving you wanting to read just one more chapter, then just one more! The ending is not completely cut and dried so leaving you something to think about and even speculate on a little.
A very worthy read if you love a mystery and enjoy reading about familiar crimebusters who after only one book you feel you know intimately and feel comfortable with.