There’s a lot going on here, but it’s not hard to follow: as is usual with Lisa Jewell, we have the range of tiny details that provide a kind of shorthand for us to relate to most of the characters. Here he is fully fleshed out in disgusting detail. If we were calling for him to get what was coming for him in the first book, we’re hollering it out this time. I wrote last time that Michael was a bit of a cardboard character. And if one unsolved murder wasn’t enough, Lucy’s ex-husband Michael (also killed in Upstairs) is back, in a subplot with a slightly different timeline. Although Birdie died 25 years ago, her skeleton has been moved relatively recently, which points to murder. Meanwhile, the skeleton of Birdie, a truly appalling character from Upstairs, has washed up in the Thames. How hard can it be to find a man hiding in a city the size of Chicago, thinks Henry, and – fair play to him – he’s up for the task. But when Phin flees Africa rather than meet, Henry develops a hunch that the object of his obsession is now in Chicago. Libby, Phin’s daughter, is going to Botswana to meet Phin (for the first time), and Henry’s invited himself along. Twenty-five years since they last saw each other, Henry hasn’t moved on. In Upstairs, teenage Henry was obsessed with teenage Phin.
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