One of the best

I truly couldn't stand a single character in this book, but I had to keep reading until the end to see who committed the murder, so the author did something right.

Not my first Walters mystery and I enjoyed this as much as I remember liking the others. It kept me guessing until the end.

A good murder mystery but some of the characters were a bit unfathomable so didn't love it.

Two young brothers spotted a naked woman laying on the beach. They were spying on her with binoculars when they accidentally dropped them down the side of the cliff. The woman didn´t move and they realized something was wrong. She wasn´t just sun bathing, she was dead. They ran to find help and found a man who called the police. The police discovered the woman had been raped and drowned. They start questioning everyone that was there to try to identify the woman and also find her killer. Later, at a nearby marina, a blond toddler was found wandering around alone. An older couple brings her to the police and they begin trying to find her parents. They put a picture of the little girl on the news in hopes that someone will recognize her and someone does. An older woman is sure that little girl is her grand-daughter and phones her son. He doesn´t really think it could be his daughter because she would be so far from home but when his wife doesn´t answer his calls he starts to worry.

I had a hard time getting into this book. After the body is found and the investigation begins it started to drag for me.

A typical Minette Walters thriller, really - well written, suspenseful, and yet not my favourite of her books. I was a bit disappointed at the murderer and the reasons, and not particularly interested in the sub-plot love story between one of the investigating policemen and a witness with whom he has a history.