“What are you doing here Rach? I thought you were coming home tonight?”

When Ruben Ford finds out about his sister Rachel’s death, he’s sitting in the back of a wrecked Mercedes Benz, listening to the rain. Ruben is telepathic: he can get into other people's hearts; one moment he’s sitting in the back of the car and the next, he’s walking across with his sister. Suddenly the ‘Deadman’ comes, knocks out Ruben and steals Rachel, taking her into the dark. When Ruben wakes up he’s in the Mercedes with a pain in his chest.

When Rachel’s body is found the next day on Dartmoor, raped and strangled, Ruben and his big brother, Cole, set out to retrace their sister’s final steps and uncover the chilling secret surrounding Lychcombe and her sudden death.

The story starts quickly, pulling you immediately in to the plot, and the tempo never slows. I raced through from beginning to end. I think that Kevin Brooks deals with this unusual and sensitive problem with success. The book I very unpredictable: there was always another unexpected thrill round the corner till the very end. It’s very graphic, you really feel as if you're there with Ruben and Cole.

This book is a very enjoyable read and I rate it very highly.