LOCKDOWN - Book review

LOCKDOWN

Peter May

 

Originally written in 2005 but only published in 2020, this is a crime novel set during a virus pandemic, when the streets of London are in Lockdown under martial law.

Detective Inspector Jack MacNeil has only a day to go in the job, then he retires. He is sent to investigate the death of a child whose bones are discovered during the building of a temporary hospital.

Someone is trying to hamper his investigations, however, and more people are needlessly dying.

Jack’s helper is wheelchair bound Amy, who works on the facial reconstruction of the dead child; she’s a formidable character, someone to root for. She did bring to mind the Silent Witness character Clarissa, who also happens to be a forensic specialist in a wheelchair. 

Grim in parts, as you’d expect.