DCI Jonah Sheens (known alternately as “Jonah” and “Sheens” — get used to it), Juliette Hanson (ditto, “Juliette” and “Hanson”), and Ben Lightman (yada, yada) are the police team members assigned to the death of Zoe Swardedeen, found dead in her bath with knife cuts on her arms. It would have been classified a suicide, except an astute investigator smells the faint trace of an anesthetic around her mouth. And who was the unnamed man who reported her death to the emergency line?
It’s like teasing apart a snarled ball of yarn. The team pulls this thread and that thread to find out who the man was, who Zoe’s friends were, and who was the mysterious unseen presence on the Skype video that seemed to record Zoe’s death offscreen.
“Watching from the Dark” is fairly methodical and meticulous — sometimes almost plodding — in describing the characters, the scenes, the relationships. At one time or another I disliked every suspect. But I really liked DC Juliette Hanson. As the author intended, I’m sure.
This was a book I looked forward to reading each time I picked it up, if for no other reason than to see whom I should dislike next.
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