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Lockdown by Peter May
2.0

Set during a global pandemic like our own, D.I Jack McNeil is about to retire and has twenty-four hours to find a killer before he himself becomes a civilian again. May drags the reader through a London similar to that of the early months of the COVID pandemic: curfews are set and none are allowed outside, law enforcement is struggling to keep control, and criminals seem to have free range of London's underbelly. Will D.I McNeil have enough time to catch the killer, or will he go free?

May writes a page-turning tale that could have mirrored real life. A quick read, May could have stretched the ending of the book, which seemed rushed and ends abruptly and unsatisfactory.