Sidney Ryan specialises in making documentaries about people who’ve been locked up for crimes they didn’t commit. She begins a documentary about Grace Sebold, imprisioned for ten years in St. Lucia for the death of her boyfriend, but then Sidney discovers that a previous boyfriend of Grace’s died in remarkably similar circumstances, and the story unfurls from there. This is taunt, interesting fiction: you know something’s not quite right with the crime but it’s hard to figure out the real culprit. Donlea spends a little too much time on retired detective Gus Morelli moaning in hospital, but she does set things up quite nicely for a sequel.
