I’ve enjoyed all Clare Mackintosh’s previous book so I was really excited that she’s started a series and her main character Ffion Morgan is brilliant - unconventional, sharp witted and brilliantly flawed, definitely not your conventional detective. This began with the most awkward morning after the night before for Ffion and made for great chemistry throughout the book. The North Wales location is great, close enough to England to cause border (and personality) clashes and isolated yet beautiful. The victim in this was unravelled so well throughout the book that you couldn’t recognise the description of him at the start and as for murder suspects it was impossible to even begin to guess who did it. All in all this is a fantastically constructed crime with both brilliant and truly awful characters mixed in and so many motives, complex relationships and very brilliant twists to the tale. 9/10