I really feel like I missed something in this book. Like maybe I got a version with missing pages or something.

On the one hand, it kept me reading. I desperately wanted to find out what was going on with Pearson and see the paedophile ring brought to justice.

On the other hand … it kind of just fizzled out. The point of the plot seems to have been whether or not Pearson took the photos he was accused of taking however many years ago. We never properly find out what that whole thing between him and the residents of the close was about. What the new photos he took of them were for. And the police don't solve any crimes in this book; they are wholly reactive, depending on various criminals giving them bits of information rather than figuring anything out for themselves. Plus there are scenes, like the odd conversations between Mike and Maria, that don't go anywhere or add anything to the plot.

Overall, I found it unsatisfying and rather disappointing.

Books about child abuse are always difficult to read. Eric Pearson is trying very hard to prove his innocence of abuse as, although he has never been prosecuted, mud sticks. At the trial of a man called Fletcher it was said that there was journal giving details of some very high up people who were part of a paedophile ring. It was destroyed when the solictor's office where it was kept was destroyed by arson before the trial, Eric Pearson says he has a copy of it and will bring it out at Fletcher's appeal. DI Mike Croft has to sort out the wheat from the chaff in regards to that appeal, and so it begins.

Very enjoyable. Thank you netgalley for the ARC.

A good creepy and dark thriller. Kept me hooked till the last page. A little different from others of the same genre. Good story xx