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This is good, very good, but you are going to have to be prepared to give it your full attention if you are going to stand a chance of keeping up with all the names.  I could easily see this becoming a box set on Netflix as there are sufficient twists and turns it would keep you hanging on for the next episode. Susan Lewis has created a very realistic account of a terrible crime where no-one has ever been bought to justice.  Three women were murdered, and a child of one of the victims disappeared on the same day, but the trail of enquiries quickly went cold and the investigation was shut down. The chief suspect was the husband of one of the women, as he didn't have a convincing alibi for where he was on the day, but with no hard evidence to link him to the murders, he had to be released from custody.  Sixteen years later, the team behind a crime investigation podcast called Hindsight pick up the case and quickly find that there is a lot more to investigate than just the m...

  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...