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.
In the early hours of the morning a woman walks into a London police station carrying a baseball bat. Despite being covered with blood she has no injuries and is unable, or unwilling, to speak. Presenting DI Leah Hunt and DS Benjamin Randle with a puzzle, is she the perpetrator of a crime or the victim of one?
In another part of town an anonymous tip-off leads Odie Reid, a journalist in need of a big story to save her career, to the badly beaten body of a man dumped in a park. Determined to solve the case first she begins a cat and mouse game with the police. One given an extra edge by her problematic relationship with DI Hunt.
Before the truth is revealed both women will be drawn back into dark areas of their past and personal lives that may be deadly to revisit
Anyone looking for a dark and complex thriller that touches on issues that are very much part of the zeitgeist need look no further than this assured debut from former TV producer Remi Kone.
In what will hopefully be the first in a gripping new series she brings together two strong central characters with back stories heavy with secrets and a personal animus that crackles with electricity. She also has interesting things to say about our revolted, and excited, fascination with crime and the age-old questions around what it might take to trigger an act of extraordinary violence from a, seemingly, ordinary person.
The motive driving someone to take revenge by truly original means is only too believable to anyone who has ever read a tabloid newspaper or scrolled through social media news sites in the wake of a serious crime. Raising issues around the role of the media and the appetites of the rabble it often finds it so easy to rouse.
This is a thought provoking and thrilling debut from a writer who is set to have a glittering career taking us to some truly dark places.
