I really liked this. I have read the other in this series so I know the backstory but I thought this book was a good old fashioned police thriller. We had jeopardy, we had an unfathomable killer to begin with and then a killer who had tiny tiny chinks of relatability. We had a damaged protagonist trying to recover from a horrendous experience by running headlong into another. It was exciting and I have been to Southampton so I could imagine the locations.

It won't change the world, it's not particularly new or different in its writing style and structure but it works and that's what you want from this type of novel. We move onwards to the next one.