I wish someone had actually written a review of the subject matter of this book so that I didn't have to buy it and read it. Let me start by saying I loved his book Therapy - full of weirdness and twists and turns.
This however was just sick. It was about child sex abuse from beginning to end. I would never read a book like this, but all the reviews said it was brilliant and who wouldn't want to read something about missing people on a cruise ship - surely it was going to be another fabulous psychological thriller.
That is not what this was. The main character was a detective with severe issues, who went to great and rather disgusting lengths to catch perpetrators of child sex abuse. As the story unfolds, it gets weirder still and the book lurches from one culprit to the next, with new names appearing and not much connecting them. The eventual unravelling seems to go on forever. Just when you thought it had thankfully ended, there was another chapter with yet another of the character's sick and strange part in the whole sorry debacle. It was beyond unlikely and written badly, so that you don't quite understand if someone is dead or not.
I would not make the mistake of buying one of his books again, which I think is a shame. As I said, I loved the first book I read of his. But no more. I was left feeling disturbed and disgusted.
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