A murder involving a participant in a “partner swapping” party, but how and why did the victim end up walking home alone?
DI Gina Harte is faced with the questions, but this murder is also going to make her face her past, and hope that it doesn’t ruin her future.
Gina Harte has a secret that most of her team don’t know. She was the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, abuse of the worst most degrading type. Her husband has been dead for years but the memories will never go away.
When the team start digging into the lives of the people who attended the party they find that not everybody is a happy participant, and that’s enough to bring the memories of her past flooding back to Gina, but she can usually handle those memories.
Not this time. This time there’s a link to her past which will threaten Gina’s sanity, let alone her ability to act as the SIO for the investigation.
To make matters worse Gina has been using a dating app and has a very attentive man who just won’t take no for an answer.
Another party, another victim, and more pressure on Gina.
This book is not just the story of a murder investigation. This story looks at the effects domestic abuse has on people long after it has been made to stop.
It looks at the effects of a dominant partner coercing a spouse into doing things that they’d rather not, but end up doing to save a relationship.
It looks at the pressures put on Police Officers, who most people take for granted as they are “just doing their job”.
There is a lot going on in this book. To say I read it in one sitting would be a lie, but I didn’t get much else done from the time I first picked it up, till the last page was read.
This is the forth outing for DI Gina Harte. I really enjoyed the previous books but this one is the best. Can it be read as a stand-alone? Yes. It’s written so well that the back story is filled in so a new reader doesn’t miss out. But please read the others, its one hell of a series.
Pages: 337
Publishers: Bookouture
Publishing Date: 2ndJuly 2019
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