Journalist Neil Bannerman is not popular with the new editor at the Edinburgh Post but he is surprised to be sent to Brussels to cover the European Parliament. His temporary host is found dead at the home of a cabinet minister and, despite the evidence pointing to the contrary, the case is quickly closed assuming the two men killed each other. Bannerman is left to pick up the pieces and those pieces include a now-orphaned autistic child who is being hunted by the real killer.
I do like Peter May's writing but this book is an old one which has been re-published, probably to cash in on Brexit. The plot is predictable but no less exciting and May's prose encourages engagement. The problem is that this all feels very dated now, a bit like reading Fleming's Bond novels or an Agatha Christie, it's not old enough to be a classic but is irritating because so many of the references are unknown to a younger audience (Smith's Rhodesia for example). A good book of its time but releasing it now feels like cashing in!