This is the first of Neil White’s that I have read and I will be reading more.
What starts off as what I thought would be a good whodunnit turned into an action packed thriller with whodunnit elements and a good revelation at the end, which I should have seen, and didn’t!!! Doh!
Basically we have Jack Garrett, a freelance crime reporter hailing from rural Lancashire but now living in London.
And we have Laura McGanity a DC who knows Jack well, sometimes helping each other out, passing information on etc.
The story begins with premiership footballers being shot for what seems like no apparent reason. Enter stage left David Watts, a top English footballer at the top of his game and career who begins to receive spooky phone calls from the shooter telling him to confess to crimes he supposedly got away with in the past. Initially, I thought it was going to be a straightforward who is the shooter and that’s it. Whilst some of it is that, it becomes a whole lot more.
What follows is an action filled paced thriller that leaves London and heads to Jack’s hometown, Turners Fold, where events rapidly take on unexpected twists all over the place. We have assassinations, a scary ruthless hitman, people keeping secrets and dodgy police officers. It’s one heck of a roller coaster that doesn’t let up.
Some terrific descriptiveness of rolling countryside, (clearly the author knows that part of the world), coupled with some memorable and likable characters. A love story that actually unfolds in a sweet and not cringey way and several perpetrators, some deserving what they get, others you think, hhhmmmm understandable. I daren’t say much more without giving too much away!!
Suffice to say I enjoyed this, it’s a great debut to a series that I will definitely be following up on. Will be downloading book two shortly!!Happy reading!