I let you go by Clare MacKintosh

This fabulous 2014 debut novel, by former UK policewoman Clare MacKintosh, is the best book I've read in a while; I finished it at 2am! It's a crime story with some great twists. It begins with the death of five-year-old Jacob in a hit-and-run accident. His mum lets go of his hand for a split second, while walking home from school in the rain.  To quote the blurb...

"In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever."


The story switches between Jenna, who is trying to move on and put her memories of Jacob behind her, and the two busy detectives, Detective Inspector Ray Stevens and his talented new Detective Constable, Kate Evans, who are trying to track down the hit-and-run driver. The only criticism I have of the book is that one of the cases the detectives are pursuing involves a lot of physical domestic violence. I found reading some of these passages quite difficult. 



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