Loved it!!! Such a gripping, tense, full of surprises crime novel.
I have read all three of Fiona Barton's novels (The widow - click here to read my review; and The child - click here to read the review) and enjoyed very much both the previous ones, but I have to say this third one I really loved.
Same characters as before, journalist Kate Waters and DI Bob Sparkes, but this time both have very personal problems they are facing which reunite them and set them apart in their working/friendhsip relation.
The plot is very clever, it gives you hint all the way through to keep guessing what really happened to the two backpacker girls in Thailand, if Kate's son is a hero or a murderer.
I also met Fiona Barton at the Guildford Book Festival in 2017 (read it here).
Great crime fiction/journalism fiction, one of the best of this genre read so far this year and last. Highly recommend it!
Overall rating: 9 Plot: 9 Writing style: 8 Cover: 7
Title: The suspect
The Plot:
When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing on their gap year in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft and frantic with worry. Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth – and this time is no exception. But she can’t help but think of her own son, who she hasn’t seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling. This time it’s personal.
And as the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think . . .
The Author:
Fiona Barton's debut, The Widow, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and has been published in 36 countries and optioned for television. Her second novel, The Child, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Born in Cambridge, Fiona currently lives in Sussex and south-west France.
Previously, she was a senior writer at the Daily Mail, news editor at the Daily Telegraph, and chief reporter at the Mail on Sunday, where she won Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards.
While working as a journalist, Fiona reported on many high-profile criminal cases and she developed a fascination with watching those involved, their body language and verbal tics. Fiona interviewed people at the heart of these crimes, from the guilty to their families, as well as those on the periphery, and found it was those just outside the spotlight who interested her most . . .
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