Book info

• Title What Falls Between the Cracks
• Author Robert Scragg
• Year 2018
• Genre Thriller

Did she slip through the cracks, or was she pushed? When a severed hand is found in an abandoned flat, Detective Jake Porter and his partner Nick Styles are able to DNA match the limb to the owner, Natasha Barclay, who has not been seen in decades. But why has no one been looking for her? It seems that Natasha's family are the people who can least be trusted. Delving into the details behind her disappearance and discovering links to another investigation, a tragic family history begins to take on a darker twist. Hampered by a widespread fear of a local heavy, as well as internal politics and possible corruption within the force, Porter and Styles are digging for answers, but will what they find ever see the light of day?

Thoughts

This is a serviceable crime thriller, following two detectives who start out investigating what appears to be a missing persons cold case and end up in a much bigger organised crime conspiracy. I was intrigued by the first part and less interested in the second part - and I don’t actually know what kept me reading because it was given away pretty quickly who was involved in the disappearance and although there was a further twist about who ELSE was involved, there wasn’t really a lot of nervous tension waiting to find out whodunit. An ok read but didn’t blow me away.

Rating: 2 / 5