Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
A bag of human bones washed up on the foreshore of the Thames draws DCI Samuel Owusu into a thirty-year-old mystery. One linked to the disappearance of a minor pop star and the dark secrets haunting a wealthy family. Secrets that are about to have an impact on the lives of every member of the family.
This is an enthralling follow up to The Family Upstairs packed with plot twists and using as one of its locations an abandoned house by the river where some of the closets contain more than one skeleton. Lisa Jewell plays unsettling games with family loyalty, memory, and the way both wrap people up in chins of guilt that are almost impossible to break.
As ever in one of her thrillers a relationship isn’t always a comfortable or safe thing to be in, yet Jewell manages to create characters who are, despite their flaws capable of achieving something like redemption. In Owusu she has created a sort of father confessor figure making sense of the faults in those around him through a consciously developed understanding of his own.
This is a clever, skillfully plotted and at times unsettling book by an author at the top of her game.
