Broken Harbour. Tana French. 2018.

On a half-finished housing development, abandoned by the receding tide of the economy, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care.

To Detective Mick ‘Scorcher’ Kennedy it looks easy at first, then it looks much more troubling. And then it beings to tug st memories of childhood that Scorcher thought he had so tightly under control.