- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Avon (9 Jan. 2020)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0008282951
- ISBN-13: 978-0008282950
Synopsis
When a woman’s body is found submerged in icy water, police are shocked to find she is alive. But she won’t disclose her name, or what happened to her – even when a second body is discovered. And then she disappears from her hospital bed.
Detectives Adrian Miles and Imogen Grey follow their only lead to the home of the Corrigans, looking for answers. But the more they dig into the couple’s lives, the less they understand about them.
What’s their connection to the body in the river?
Why have other people they know been hurt, or vanished?
And can they discover the dark truth of their marriage before it’s too late?
Review
Woman in the Water is the sixth book in the DS Imogen Grey series. Grey’s partner DS Adrian Miles, is on his way home when he sees a group of women looking at something in the water, and on closer inspection it is the body of a young woman. Barely alive DS Miles pulls her from the river and she is rushed to hospital. She insists she doesn’t now who she is or how she got there, but Grey and Miles are not convinced and when another body is found their Jane Doe disappears from her hospital bed. No one has reported her missing, and their investigations into both attacks leads them to the owner of Corrigan Construction, and others connected who have disappeared or been hurt. Full of action, with plenty of surprises along the way, this fast. paced thriller had me gripped.
It has been quite a while since I picked up a Katerina Diamond book, I seem to have been busy reviewing and neglected her books that I have on my shelf. I was surprised to see that this was he sixth book in the DS Imogen Grey series, I have only read the first book, but found this really easy to read as a standalone and didn’t feel I missed anything. In this book DS Grey and DS Miles have become romantic partners as well as professional which adds a different dynamic to the book. As the investigation continues, and Grey and Miles feel their way through this new relationship, the lines become blurred and the two start to overlap. Adrain came from a background of domestic abuse and this case gets personal for him, wanting to save the victim like he tried to save his mother. His judgement becomes flawed and as Imogen tries to cover his back as his behaviour becomes erratic, tensions arise between them.
Katerina Diamond’s plot is wonderfully complex and very dark at points. She certainly doesn’t shy away from difficult subjects, like domestic violence and rape which she delivers with brutal realism. The investigation is fast paced and had me on the edge of my seat with the twists and turns as it built towards a conclusion I really didn’t see coming, which was shockingly brilliant.
Woman in the Water is deliciously dark, full of suspense and totally gripping. The developing romance of Grey and Miles adds a new dynamic to their professional relationship and tension to the plot as the two overlap. Out in January I encourage you to get clicking and pre order this gritty and gripping crime thriller.
Thank you to Avon books for my copy of Woman in the Water in return for a honest review.
