I’m sure I’m not in the minority, when on hearing of a crime, have uttered the words “what I would do if I got them in a room”. So imagine if that was more than a possibility and the criminal came to live in your house as part of the punishment.
Prisons no longer exist and instead the convicted are sent to the homes of those affected by their crimes or to host families under certain circumstances. Hannah’s husband John was a police officer murdered in an apparent mugging. Jem, convicted of his murder, is now to spend twenty years locked in a cell in Hannah’s basement kitchen. They call it restorative justice, seeing first hand the outcome of their crimes but Jem protests he is innocent and that her husband is a liar.
Told in alternate chapters between Hannah and Jem they are short and snappy to keep the pace high throughout. It works really well as you get just enough information drip fed to try and work out the truth. As Hannah starts to look more into her husband’s murder it becomes evident he had secrets and now her best friend Aisling is avoiding her.
I really liked Hannah from the start, it was the simple but caring gesture of sweeping away the fallen hair from her cancer suffering Domestic Liason Officer, so as not to embarrass him. Jem also had a backstory that tugged at my heartstrings, making me want his pleas of innocence to be true.
I read a lot of crime/thriller books and it blows my mind when one smacks me in the face with its originality. A book that made me question my own ethics and ask myself honestly what would I really do? I still don’t have the answer and I am glad justice is left to the professionals.
Prisons no longer exist and instead the convicted are sent to the homes of those affected by their crimes or to host families under certain circumstances. Hannah’s husband John was a police officer murdered in an apparent mugging. Jem, convicted of his murder, is now to spend twenty years locked in a cell in Hannah’s basement kitchen. They call it restorative justice, seeing first hand the outcome of their crimes but Jem protests he is innocent and that her husband is a liar.
Told in alternate chapters between Hannah and Jem they are short and snappy to keep the pace high throughout. It works really well as you get just enough information drip fed to try and work out the truth. As Hannah starts to look more into her husband’s murder it becomes evident he had secrets and now her best friend Aisling is avoiding her.
I really liked Hannah from the start, it was the simple but caring gesture of sweeping away the fallen hair from her cancer suffering Domestic Liason Officer, so as not to embarrass him. Jem also had a backstory that tugged at my heartstrings, making me want his pleas of innocence to be true.
I read a lot of crime/thriller books and it blows my mind when one smacks me in the face with its originality. A book that made me question my own ethics and ask myself honestly what would I really do? I still don’t have the answer and I am glad justice is left to the professionals.