I know Stig Abell from Times Radio, and I also follow Times Radio on X, so I knew he had written some books and was interested to discover his writing style. This appears to be the second in what will be a series of Jake Jackson mysteries, but it didn't seem to matter that I hadn't read the first one. As you might expect from Stig, it was well thought out and complex enough to stay interesting all the way through. The storyline draws on disturbing themes featured in the news such as child abduction and murky services offered on in the dark web where evil deeds are sold to anyone wealthy enough to afford the price. The cast of characters is diverse, and made more interesting for that, and the protagonist Jake Jackson is possibly Stig's alter-ego. Jackson is an ex police detective who has inherited a remote property with no easy means of communication with the outside world. It had been his intention to cut himself off from the mainstream of society but life...