Close Your Eyes

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I liked the story but there were way too many details about things I didn’t care about. I just wanted to get to the point and find Millie. Abbott isn't afraid to write about controversial topics - a previous book referenced a pedophile ring; this particular book explores the effects and consequences of cults and it is a hugely intriguing and engaging topic that is sensitively and realistically handled. If you haven’t read any of these books before, you are in for an absolute treat. All these books work exceptionally well as stand-alones and could be read out of sequence (shudder), but I always like to follow the series in the way the author intended so grab yourself a copy of Only The Innocent and thank me later. As the investigation commences, Martha Porter, the firm’s office manager, disappears before the team can meet and interview her.Moreover, she has covered her personal and digital footprints and can not be found. She is either a key witness in solving the crime or is a key suspect as the perpetrator.

I don’t think I’ll ever kill off Tom Douglas. Most detectives have some kind of flaw – their marriages are breaking up, they drink too much, sometimes they’re almost derelicts – but I intentionally wrote Tom as a good person. Readers love him.’ Nobody can understand why Genevieve Strachan would leave her home, late at night, wearing high heels, and end up battered and stabbed. Murdered just minutes away from her own front door, with no clue as to why. There are some strands of this book I found uncomfortable, I do not mean this negatively, it is good sometimes that an author stretches our feelings and fears. Again I do not want to reveal too much but the theme of human manipulation is so relevant with everything that is going on at the moment. It does show how easily people can be manipulated to bend to the will of others.Jo Palmer lives an enviable lifestyle with Ash, her partner and her daughter Millie until one night the police come calling. They take away Ash, accusing him of a heinous crime and then social workers take Millie. But when Jo tries to find out more about when they will be home, her entire world falls apart. She managed to publish another Douglas novel, Right Behind You, in 2020, as well as the second in her Sergeant Stephanie King series. Close Your Eyes is far more than only a police procedural novel. Whilst the intricacies of the investigation are very well portrayed and the reader learns a lot about the team work involved, it is the sub-plot concerning Martha that really drives the story.

It's cleverly and well thought-out, the police investigation ties in neatly with the revelations about Martha and doubts are cast throughout. The reader is taken on a twisting and turning road to what is a superb and satisfying conclusion to the entire story. TV would be delightful, but it’s quite difficult to convert a book into TV. They have to be stand alone or police procedurals. My books aren’t like that. Mine are from the point of view of the victims and the perpetrators.’ Once again Rachel Abbott proves why she is one of the best crime fiction writers around and as always it’s a pleasure to sit down with DCI Tom Douglas and catch up on his life and try to solve a crime or two.There is a very strong theme at the centre of Close Your Eyes but to reveal it would be tantamount to a spoiler. It is a fascinating one with a strong psychological undercurrent. Right Behind You is the 9th book in the DCI Tom Douglas series and Rachel Abbott is amongst a small handful of authors that I would read without even glancing at the blurb! With Martha’s chapters told in the first person and the rest of the story in the third, I felt as though I were being drawn in to Martha’s world and as events unfolded I had more questions needing answers. I had various scenarios going around in my head and I was desperate to know if I was right. One of the reviewers (for And So It Begins) wrote: ‘It was so fantastically written and expertly portrayed that I felt I was watching a TV show’. Dar vienas neįtikėtinai įtraukiantis trileris, kuris prikaustys nuo pirmų puslapių, ir užmins daug mįslių, į kurias bus sunku surasti atsakymus.