

The twists in the ending were not an entire surprise, but in these books, the process is what matters. The pace is slow (but thus seems more true-to-life) this is by no means a “thriller.” Alternate perspectives play out in the chapters although Manon’s is the main voice.

Edith is the daughter of very well-connected parents, which makes the job of the police more stressful than usual. But this activity does provide the comic relief for the more serious aspects of the story, which concern a missing 24-year-old young woman, Edith Hind.

She is single and looking for love in all the wrong places, i.e., on anonymous internet dating services. Manon Bradshaw, 39, is a detective sergeant with the Major Incident Team in the Cambridgeshire Police. This is a British police procedural that, like many such books that come out of Britain, are more about the investigators than the crime itself.
