A Killer in the Family: The gripping new thriller that will have you hooked from the first page

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The backstory in A Killer in the Family was particularly complex and emotional, with plenty of twists and turns along the way as the truth is unveiled. Aisling Cooley, a single mother and game developer, is haunted by the disappearance of her father, who abandoned her and her mother years ago. While all of the others had this leaning as well, I honestly had to remind myself several times that it was, in truth, a police procedural. The rest of the book follows the complex investigation, with leads that turn out to be dead ends even though they have a DNA link.

The story is tight, tense and utterly addictive, I was rushing to reach the conclusion whilst trying not to miss any of the clues that we had been given. The chance mention of a name from her past prompts her to finally look through the boxes of photographs and papers she put aside in her spare room after her mother died. The story is narrated by Aisling, Jonah, and some of the other police detectives, in their respective perspectives. Although this plot was far more detailed and intricate than the other Sheens books I’ve read, I was just as entranced by Lodge’s writing prowess and character development in this novel as in her other works. I know I’m all about those nice, pretty, little bows, but this time I’ve got to give it to Lodge because even with a cliffhanger, it was simply flawless.Assuming the perpetrator is male, that leaves Aisling facing the cold, hard fact that one of the three most important men in her life just may also happen to be evil personified. While I thought it started a little slowly about halfway through it picked up quite a bit and was a pretty fast paced police procedural. Needless to say things aren’t as straightforward as they seem and long hidden historical events play their part. The New Forest area of England is horrified and shocked when a middle-aged woman is found burned to death on a pyre. Finally, detectives catch a break when human blood is found at a partially burned pyre and it doesn't belong to the victim.

They support each other and work hard to apprehend dangerous criminals in a way that makes the reader almost feel like part of the team themselves.Realizing that his sons will not allow him, he sends them away to get water for the couple, and then shoots all four of them. Gytha Lodge is the author of She Lies in Wait, Watching from the Dark, Lie Beside Me, and Little Sister. His younger brothers Ricky, who spends his days doing nothing, and Ray, who is a farm laborer, decide (convinced that he is going to be killed by a fellow inmate) to break their father out of prison. How Gytha Lodge can leave us dangling like that I don’t know, but if you are looking for drama, that final chapter has it in spades.

We also meet her two sons, Finn and Ethan, who are chalk and cheese, but also seem to be nursing secrets. All in all, it was a sharp, perfectly crafted story that spoke volumes about the virtuoso behind the keyboard.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. From a deep, dark secret that had been kept hidden for decades to family drama that was thoroughly hard-hitting, the impeccability of this novel is not to be overlooked.