A man walks into a private investigator's office, holds up a photograph and says: 'I want you to find out if I killed this man.'
Private investigator Julia Stark receives an unannounced visit at the office. The man at the door is one of the owners of a successful family business. The day before, he was present at a board meeting and dinner at his estate in the northwestern part of Sweden. The following morning, he finds a photograph in his phone of a bloody man, tied up with a bag over his head.
Due to alcohol-related amnesia, the man has no idea where the picture comes from and wants to hire Stark Detective Agency to clear his name before the police get involved. Julia asks her ex-husband Sidney Mendelson to take time off from the City Police and assist her in the investigation. There is still a glimmer of hope left in Julia that this might be her chance to win him back.
Welcomed as guests at the opulent estate, Julia and Sidney begin to search for the truth while dining and socializing with each of the family members that could theoretically be involved in the murder.
She's solved every mystery.
But none like this . . .
I really enjoyed this book, I liked our main character Julia, she was very intriguing and you knew that something had happened to her previously but you didn't instantly know what it was that had happened to her in the past. I liked how this was revealed bit by bit alongside the main storyline.
The main storyline was also very intriguing, PG had no idea if he had killed a man or not, it then turned out the man was his brother and he still had no idea! The family was full of secrets and there were times when I thought it could have been each of them. There were some parts that I had worked out but others came as a complete surprise! I thought the characters were well written and came across as an arguing family who didn't seem to like each other very much and often didn't have a good word to say about any of the others.
I really loved the writing style of this book and I really hope that maybe Julia and Sid can re-kindle their romance in a future book. However, we still don't know why the split up in the first place... that was one of the mysteries that wasn't revealed to us.
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Huge Thanks to Random Things Tours, Alex Ahndoril and Zaffre Books for my place on the blog tour
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