I must admit I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. The description was a little vague and I’ve recently been ‘tricked’ into reading outside of my normal genre by books I’ve assumed to be crime fiction or thrillers… only to later discover ghosts or the supernatural. Which would be fine if I wanted to read about the supernatural. But that’s usually not the case when I settle down expecting to be entertained in a macabre-but-safe manner by psychopathic serial killers.

And while we’re making confessions, I need to add that my interest waned a little early on in this book. I’m usually okay with unlikeable characters but for some reason a couple of the leads in this novel put me off from the get-go. Fortunately however, I hung in there…