This review is written with thanks to Pan Macmillan for my copy of All Of Us Are Broken via Netgalley.

Blurb:

The electrifying crime novel featuring DS Saul Anguish from the award winning author, Fiona Cummins, author of Into the Dark, When I Was Ten and Rattle.

The Family
After a year they want to forget, the Hardwicke family set out to the Scottish Highlands for a much needed holiday.

The Crimes
They are about to cross paths with a violent and dangerous young couple hell-bent on infamy, their love story etched in blood and a dark past which must be uncovered.

The Detective
As the clock ticks down, Detective Saul Anguish is on the hunt to find the couple before more lives are lost.

The Mother – who will be forced to make an impossible decision.

Review:

The prologue of All Of Us Are Broken is the first brilliant chapter of an amazing book! It ensures that the novel starts with a bang and I was thinking about the scenario in it all the time I was reading, wondering if the author would answer all the questions she raises in the first few pages.

The pace that is set in the prologue never really lets up. The chapters begin with locations and times which emphasise the speed at which events are taking place. Fiona Cummins is an exceptional writer and I was immediately taken to each location and felt as though I was part of the action. The switches between scenes which show what is happening from the points of view of the police, the perpetrators and the victim are really effective and I was really keen to know how the story would end.

However, the beauty of Fiona Cummins’ writing is that the novel is not just a fast paced cat and mouse chase. As the story unravels, she explores a number of other issues which makes her writing really poignant. There are so many layers to All Of Us Are Broken and the author really made me think as I was reading.

All Of Us Are Broken is available from Amazon.