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Erin is the mistress of the well-measured twist. Ok, I guessed one of the revelations about 20 pages before its announcement but then discovered this was only one, minor element. The rest of the revelations came as total shocks. Having said that, I have a suspicion that even if you guess it all (clever clogs!) you'd still want to follow it through to its conclusion, step by nail-biting step.
It's not just about the human stars though. Erin has set it in her beloved Brighton, even fiddling with a historical time line so that Luke can research in one of her favourite old haunts after it had actually been demolished. Indeed, Brighton is a location that always stands up well in a novel (for evidence I cite [[''Brighton Rock]] '' and, more recently Alison McLeod's [[Unexploded by Alison MacLeod|Unexploded]]) but once Erin has worked in her trademark labyrinth of secret connections and explosive endings (sometimes literally), she matches its architecture with her own stature. Now we just have to sit back and wait impatiently for Erin Kelly 6.
Thank you Hodder & Stoughton for providing us with a copy for review!