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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All families have secrets. That’s a given. Big secrets, little secrets. Some have more than others, but there they sit, big or small, and sometimes they come out to bite you on the backside.
The Morgan family are no exception. But they are a bit strange. Strange enough that when their grandfather dies, they take off in a road trip that mirrors one that they took years before. With grandad. And he’s there on this one too. This time in a box, burnt to ash in a crematorium. See, unless they take this trip to scatter his remains at the end of it, they forfeit Grandaddy’s estate. A big one.
Beth, the middle sister of four (although only three are present, the fourth, Nikki, only a ghostly voice in a journal of the first trip) is our storyteller, and bit by bit we learn all about the family. Secrets! This bunch take the biscuit. And lies. Where do I start?
This is a weird novel, but in a good way. It starts out weird, and just gets weirder as more and more details of road trip to hell that no one would choose to take, become clear. Or rather, trips. Because neither one ends well. And as for endings, betcha don’t see this one coming. Downing is a terrific writer, and I’m sure this will be as big a hit as My Lovely Wife, her debut best seller. If not bigger. Loved it!
