I loved this book. It had me hooked from the first page. I read it in one sitting, a real page turner. It has a solid plot with plenty of twists. Highly recommended.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Catherine Ryan Howard for the copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

I really wanted to read Catherine's second novel, her first one was so different to books I've tended to read and I enjoy her way of crafting her stories.

Alison has been living in the Netherlands for 10 year's, only seeing her parents when they come to visit her. She hasn't been back to visit Ireland in the interim and has no intention to either.

Then two Gardaí turn up at her home and ask them to accompany them back to Dublin to meet with a convicted murderer who will only speak to her, when a copycat murder takes place.

Packing the minimum needed for an overnight stopover, Alison relents and starts on a journey which will bring back everything that she has tried to bury deep in the recesses of her memory.

Will, her ex-lover and now languishing in a psychiatric hospital, pending transfer to full prison status, has something important to tell her in Ireland.

It's when she gets to Dublin that she is pulled into something more. Things start to happen that drag her further into the ongoing investigation and ultimately put her in danger.

I was drawn into the story and enjoyed watching it unfold. The obvious endings and suspects weren't quite as I expected, hooray! I like a different baddie and ending to the usual.

I predicted that Catherine would produce further quality novels - I wasn't wrong! If you like suspenseful crime stories, I'd recommend you read this one.