*thank you to Netgalley and Bonnier Zaffre for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

1.5 stars.

I couldn't get into this. Right from the start my mind drifted. I had a tough time finnishing this. I had hoped II would enjoy it as the description of the story sounded pretty good. It's not like most stories I read but it sounded good enough that I wanted to give it a go. It was listed as a thriller but I found it to not be the case which was rather disappointing. Unfortunately this book is a No from me.

What is one to do when confronted with such a book? It’s a bit like We Need to Talk About Kevin, but much less well written, and certainly much less focussed. A family of four, a marriage much less happy than the wife’s narrative allows, a daughter who has fled from the claustrophobia of her home, a son on the spectrum—one kind or another, and an absent father. We don’t hear much from either of the men. It isn’t a jigsaw, but it has puzzle aspects. Walk-on parts here and there, mainly the daughter, who works for an agency which vaguely resembles Medicins sans Frontieres, but who also introduces good friends and noble security guards. Back in Helsinki, there are terrorists, behind whom lies a world-class groomer.
The problem about the ‘what to do’ aspects is largely that this is a book that means well, that attempts to call attention to saving the planet, to climate change, but never achieves anything surprising. It’s not a crime novel, but a novel with crimes in it, entirely predictable. Bonnier Zaffre are a good press, but the strapline on the cover suggests that they know there are problems.

This book was not really as the cover and blurb had led me to believe,it startedreally well and had some interesting perspectives ie the killers family and how it affected them but found it difficult to maintain full interest to the conclusion of the story.

This had great promise in the first opening chapters but it went downhill from there, really struggled to make it to the end.

Unfortunately, this book was archived before I got chance to read it.

This is a good example of false advertising or bad marketing. The book doesn’t deliver on what is promised in the marketing copy. This isn’t a thriller or a mystery. In fact, it’s more of a retrospective contemplation of family dynamics. Which is fine but that’s not what I wanted to read. It’s a real disservice to the author to mislabel the book.

It was a interesting thriller because it was basically a exploration of why they done it. And it explores the way the crime effects the killers family. There wasn't much action in it but you will be rewarded a good conclusion