You can kinda tell from the cover that this is going to be one of those amusement park rides - thrilling, rickety and quick, but fun. It was all that and a great "literary cleanser". It's a book you read after a heavy thinking or feeling book. It's a book you read when you don't want to engage too much and just want to be entertained.

I have to say though that Nicola grated on my nerves. Where her daughter and mother are strong, clever women, she is nervy and floppy, which doesn't gel with some of her actions.

As with any thriller, there's not much you can reveal about the plot in a review without spoiling it. I really don't think that ending "moral" is appropriate, but maybe I'm just a prude who thinks killing people who deserve it isn't really something to be applauded.