A review by charf47
Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham

4.0

'Rush of Blood' is the story of three British couples who meet while on holiday in Florida. As their holiday draws to a close, the daughter of another holiday maker, staying at the same resort, goes missing and is later found, murdered. The three couples return home to England and maintain a somewhat fraught and tenuous friendship, partly maintained by their shared proximity to the crime. As more is revealed about these six people, each flawed or damaged in some way, the reader begins to suspect each one in turn and even entertains the thought that perhaps more than one of these people may be guilty of this terrible crime. These suspicions are intensified when another young girl goes missing under similar circumstances, this time in England. The final outcome of the book is astonishingly unexpected. A gripping story that is difficult to put down. Thanks to Atlantic Monthly Press and NetGalley for the ARC.