Book Tour: The Suspect

I've been on a kick of reading mystery and suspense novels over the course of the past week.  Yesterday I shared four of these books, and today I'm following it up with a blog tour of Fiona Barton's The Suspect.  

There's nothing anywhere on the cover of this book that indicates The Suspect is part of a series and it works entirely as a stand-alone novel, but after looking at Goodreads, I realized it is the third book featuring the reporter Kate Waters. Within the story, there is a reference to an earlier mystery that I remembered reading, so if this a book that you pick up and enjoy, there are two others you can go back and read.

Kate Waters son, Jake, has moved to Thailand and hasn't been home for two years.  She wishes they had a better relationship and that he'd call more often, but is grateful for the times he does check in.

She's become aware of two British girls, Alex and Rosie, who have gone to Bangkok as part of their gap year experience that have gone missing.  As she talks to both girls' parents and travels to Bangkok herself the situation hits close to home for Kate.  

And after the girls' bodies are found and it is revealed that her son knew both girls and saw them shortly before their deaths, Kate becomes personally invested in finding out the truth about what happened to these girls.

There is suspense in this novel that kept me turning the pages.  I loved the overseas setting that the girls were a part and the fact that the story is partially narrated by Alex as the timeline of the story moves from the present to the days leading up to the girls' disappearance.  

Barton's novels are well written and as I continue to read book with these recurring characters I'm coming to know them and look forward to reconnecting with them in each book.


Thanks to Berkley Books for providing a copy of this book for my review.  All opinions expressed are, as always, my own.