The Fine Art of Invisible Detection: The thrilling BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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However all this changes one day when a client comes in to the office, their case needs someone to go to London, someone who wont ring alarm bells and that someone is Wada.

I appreciated the intricately woven narrative in my second reading of this book changing my two star designation to 4 star due to the masterful intricately woven dynamic action start to finish.

I think that I shall be reading much more of Mr Goddard's work over the next few years than I did over the last. As with many crime novels set in Iceland, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection puts a significant multiplier on the country’s normally low murder rate. That was back in the days when in deciding on which book to take from the library , the decision was taken as much on the physical weight of the book, especially if taking it on holiday, as its reading quality. Nick and Wada’s paths eventually collide in Iceland where the stakes will be raised for both of them as they uncover a plot of corruption, fraud and pure greed. Martin Caldwell, whom both Wada and Nick Miller are seeking, has disappeared and after a fair bit of trekking between London and Devon, both characters, separately, find themselves heading to Iceland.

Crime fiction protagonists don’t need to blow the doors off like Jack Reacher, or come with brilliant minds and complex issues like just about half the detectives you can name. Quiet and resilient, Umiko Wada is the perfect invisible undercover detective who should never be underestimated. And somehow all international characters speak with perfect English idioms in a way only a native would speak. Twelve years a widow, after losing her husband to the Sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, it’s a very satisfying way to pass her time, even if her mother feels she should be looking for marriage. This is/was a fabulous story with such great characters and an excellent back story… it was, I have say, well worth the wait.

The official line is that he committed suicide twenty-seven years ago while in London, but she has always believed he was murdered in cold blood. Brilliantly plotted and excellent pacing brought out the best in Wada, whose character really stole the show.

The BBC Radio 2 Book Club announced on 24 January that its new home is on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. It doesnt have to be dramatic but it draws you in and makes you feel welcome and you just know that you are going to enjoy the experience.

Umiko Wada is a personal assistant and secretary to prominent and well-respected Private Investigator Kazuto Kodaka at his own agency in central Tokyo, specialising in commercial casework. This is a bizarre twist in the storyline, but more is to come, as they find themselves on the fringes of a major conspiracy involving Nishizaki.

He has won awards in the UK, the US and acrossEurope and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. We're talking about a lived-in-Japan-all-her-life heroine who's not remotely a wealthy global traveller yet who is completely blase about whipping around the Western world, finding her way around the UK, nipping off to the USA and then Iceland, without any sense of tiredness or fear or culture shock (Tokyo to Reykjavik? This book felt very much like a contract filler from Mr Goddard who ran out of ideas with this book. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities. He is approached by a woman, Mimori Takenaga, who believes that her father was murdered in London in 1977.We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. The blurb is a little misleading: Umiko’s husband was not recently murdered, but she is a protagonist who is easy to like and respect: intelligent, perceptive, resourceful, tenacious, and surprisingly gutsy for a widow in her late forties. Missing since the 70s and presumed dead, the man Nick thinks might be his father was last seen on a beach in Cornwall, where one of his housemates was found drowned. This may be related to another massive problem with this book: the author hasn't remotely put himself into the heroine's head.