This is a twisty little tale where you\u2019re never quite sure where the story is heading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Una has just got a job as a live-in companion to the wealthy, but cold Elspeth. But the money is good, and she\u2019s willing to put up with the fact that Elspeth\u2019s daughter Kathryn really doesn\u2019t take to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But in due course, she begins to learn that she\u2019s not the first companion that has lived in the house. There were two before her, and nobody is really talking much about them. What happened? And who\u2019s responsible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book tells the story from a handful of perspectives, and just when you think you\u2019ve worked out what\u2019s happening, something else will come along to throw you off course and introduce something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bristol setting is fun, with a noir-ish tone to it. The Clifton Suspension Bridge plays a key role, and it comes across as a lonely place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course there are some contrivances in a story like this. The police seem enormously disinterested, and there is a lot going on across a relatively small set of characters. But that all said, it kept me guessing right to the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n