This is not the stuff I usually read, but I found it quite absorbing. The plot is a bit crazy and took a while to make sense, but I think I got there in the end. Almost fried my brain, but on reflection, I definitely enjoyed it.

This is book three of this brilliant series and you know what comes next - read the first two first, they are brilliant too so what's stopping you. And, after you have read them, I would also recommend the TV adaptation - that's just as cracking! So... Former cop Ray Lennox has left Scotland and the police for the polar opposite that is Brighton! He has cleaned himself up, and teamed up with another ex-cop, George Marsden, and together they have formed Horsham Security Services, a company that specialises in home and office security, their main clientele being the likes of care homes and the elderly. He lives in a spectacular house and, to complete the picture, has a very much younger girlfriend. And it is through her that he is introduced to the powerful Mathew Cardingworth, a man who Ray firmly believes is one of the men responsible for something that happened to him, one of the three monsters in the tunnel who preyed on him and his friend Les when they were children. And that's all I'm saying as you really need to discover the rest of the gory details as the author intended. Suffice to say that it all gets a bit dark and interconnected and convoluted as more and more of Ray's past is unpeeled and the eventual sordid truth exposed, once and for all. I absolutely LOVE Ray Lennox as a character. And I also love Dougray Scott's depiction of him on the screen. He is complex but very much a product of what happened to him all those years ago. As well as a challenging family life. But he is determined to do good in the world, it's just some of the ways he tries to achieve that aren't quite always within the lines...! Although the main theme of the book is very dark, the author balances it, as he always does, with some of the best banter and humour. Especially in dialogue. Meaning that the book never gets too dark. There is always respite along the way for the reader. All in all, a cracking addition to an already impressive series and indeed, back catalogue. Roll on next time. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.