Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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I know page-turner is a reviewer’s cliché, but sometimes a book just is. And Tom Hunt’s novel is a terrific page turner. Suspense screwed up tight, and then turned up just a little tighter.
One freezing February night in Iowa, four characters collide in a wooded area, and off we go on a bumpy ride. Well five actually, but one is dead. Which is what started the whole story. Eighteen-year-old Joshua ran a man over and did a runner. Didn’t report it, and then went back to recover a glove he left at the scene. His mother, Karen followed him by tracing his phone. Then Ross and Amber, two bank robbers who’d been left without a getaway-car came across them. Only trouble could follow, and when Amber gets accidentally shot, the whole deal goes to hell.
Hunt really ramps up the tension to eleven in this, his second novel, and I must check out his first.
I can’t recommend One Fatal Mistake highly enough. Don’t miss it.
