A Tidy Ending: The latest dark comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is – pushing the Hoover round and cooking fish fingers for tea is a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy catalogues coming through the door for the house’s previous occupant. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images View image in fullscreen ‘A masterclass in misdirection’: author Joanna Cannon at Oxford literary festival in March 2017. My receipt of a review copy from the publisher did not impact the expression of my honest opinions above. If only Linda could track down and befriend Rebecca, maybe some of that enviable lifestyle would rub off on her and she wouldn’t have to worry about what Terry is up to. Laika, the youngest, retreats into a contactless digital life, designing the trading algorithms that will ultimately prove his downfall in a condo near Wall Street.

But that seems fairly normal—until he starts keeping odd hours at work, at around the same time young women start to go missing. I feel that I might have liked this book slightly more if I had read it, but I doubt it would have been a 5 star read for me even then. But the loss of her father has never left Linda; she thinks about him constantly and how his death affected her small family.None of the characters were likeable and while some of Linda’s thought processes were amusing, the story dragged. The book goes back in time to the past, with the serial killer, and with Linda having a hard time fitting in with the world. She sent me to play next door with a little boy who was covered in it hoping I'd get covered in it too and it worked. When the body count rises to three, Linda begins to pay more attention to the changes in her husband’s schedule, and the new variations in his work. When mail addressed to the previous occupant, Rebecca, arrives, Linda is convinced if she only emulated Rebecca, she would be just as successful and confident.

The poor woman had no hope given her equally as awful mother, who’s greatest ambition in life was to sit by and watch things play out outside of her window; gossip was what fuelled her.But she's good at solving puzzles and there are times she sees things other people might have overlooked.