OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
UNTIL NOW…
‘Emily’ is a devoted single mother.
‘Jack’ starts a new job in a new town.
‘Russell’ may be falling in love.
They all share the same secret:
none of them are who they say they are.
They are among only nine criminals in the UK who have been granted lifelong anonymity, for their own safety, because of their terrible crimes.
But what if someone exposed their true identities to the families of their victims, who are desperate for revenge?
Probation officer Olivia Campbell is caught in the crossfire of this unprecedented crisis – and as the hunt for the mole behind it all intensifies, so too does the search for the vigilante killers let loose by the leaks…
Everyone is a suspect. Anyone could be a killer.
Who deserves justice? And who gets to decide?
#EyeForAnEye
Book Information: 534 pages. Publisher: Orion. Publication date: 20 July 2023
M.J. Arlidge has worked in television for the last twenty years, specialising in high-end drama production, including prime-time crime serials Silent Witness, Torn, The Little House and, most recently, the hit ITV show Innocent. In 2015 his audiobook exclusive Six Degrees of Assassination was a number-one bestseller. His debut thriller, Eeny Meeny, was the UK’s bestselling crime debut of 2014 and has been followed by ten more DI Helen Grace thrillers – all Sunday Times bestsellers.
My review:
I’m a huge fan of MJ Arlidge’s series featuring DCI Helen Grace and have also enjoyed his other standalone A Gift For Dying, I was very excited to start his latest standalone Eye For An Eye, especially having organised his blogtour for Orion in July and reading all the glowing reviews from my fellow bloggers.
This book is NOT for the faint hearted whilst I thoroughly enjoyed it, I have to warn readers that despite being topical and thought-provoking, this book contains some highly disturbing scenes and themes including child abuse, child murders, paedophiles and serial offenders.
Written in short, sharp, pacy chapters, narrated by several main characters, Eye for An Eye is about a group of dangerous, notorious criminals who have served their sentences and been released back into society under a new identity. They now have jobs, homes, families, living a “normal” life and their heinous pasts are hidden from everyone except their probation officers.
However, their identities are being leaked to the victims families and justice is being served on these vicious criminals by vigilante killers.
With the police trying to hunt down these killers, the probation officers trying to protect their clients, the criminals trying to avoid being outed and the victims families desperate for revenge, Eye for An Eye is a thought-provoking book which makes the reader question their own values and morals.
It’s not an easy read as mentioned above due to the subject matter, but the violence and scenes are not gratuitous however disturbing they are.
I sped through this book on my kindle and didn’t realise it has 534 pages until I prepared this review, which just proves how much I enjoyed it.
If you are a fan of gritty, topical and thought-provoking crime thrillers, then you should definitely read this book.
