This book was given to me with the admonition from my mother, "It is dark but you will learn things about how the United Kingdom does its policework." I must say, both of her statements were true.

It is in every way dark. And it kept me guessing until the end. Well, I did figure the final murder was murder, but it is the only bit that I managed to get right.

A young woman and child are found in the basement of an old house. The old man who lives there claims he's never seen them before. The young woman can't speak and the old man is suffering from Alzheimer's, it's up to Fawley and his team to get to the bottom of it.

Though this is the second in a series, I read it as a stand-alone and it was fine. I was able to access all of the story.

What I really enjoyed about this novel was that it switched narration styles. Some is in first person. Other parts are evidentiary transcripts. And still other parts are tweets or articles reproduced in the pages of the novel. It is like reading a scrapbook to put together the narrative and I really enjoyed it.