When a civilian sticks their nose into an ongoing Police Investigation it is a hinderance.
When that civilian starts to interfere in the investigation, and have an ongoing negative effect on it they become an annoyance.
When they start to withhold information they become a criminal
When that person is a recently retired Police Officer it’s inexcusable.
Or is it.
Emilia Haines is the ex cop. She’s a struggling Private Investigator. She’s also a victim.
Her sister was killed by a stalker. On the night she died she had repeatedly called Emilia who was to busy being a Police Detective to answer her calls. She knows she could have saved her.
The PTSD this brought on has seen her leave the job she loved.
The Confession Room is a website where people can anonymously make life confessions.
But when the site becomes the vehicle through which a killer targets people, before streaming their final confession and murder, things obviously take a serious turn.
Emilia has posted on the site, confessing the fact she thinks she could have saved her sister. But she’s also obsessing that some day, somebody will confess to her murder.
So when people are murdered in the Confession Room she starts nosing around the investigation.
Yes, she is the hinderance who graduates through to become criminally involved by withholding evidence. But that’s only the start.
Things get worse, much worse.
This story is a bit of a stretch. Lia Middleton lets Haines get away with too much. Not only in the fact that she wouldn’t have been able to get away with it in the real world, but also to the point of the reader losing any empathy they may have had with her.
But this isn’t a bad thing. There was no time in this book that I felt I knew what was coming.
And the ending certain wasn’t what I was expecting
That made for a really enjoyable read, full of twists and turns, and fast paced, every chapter captivated me.
Publisher: Penguin. Pages: 352. Audio Book: 9 hours 25 minutes. Narrator Rachael Stirling
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