This novel is about a TV programme that tries to solve the murder of Luke Ryder, which happened in 2003, ten years ago. The idea for the programma comes from Guy Howard, who was Luke's stepson and was ten at the time.
The first chapter introduces us to the experts in the programme and to the murder itself. The experts to analyse the case are DI Alan Canning, a retired police detective of the Met, Mitchell Clarke, a journalist, Hugo Fraser, a criminal prosecutor, Dr Laila Furness, a forensic psychologist, JJ Norton, a crime scene investigator, and Bill Serafini, a private investigator who used to be a detective for the New York Police.
The murder of Luke Ryder was never solved. The man was found dead in the garden of the house by one of his stepdaughters, Maura, Guy's sister. There is another sister, Adelle. At the time there were rumours that his wife, Caroline, fourteen years his senior, had killed him, but she was at a party. Caroline met Luke through his late husband's first son, Ruppert, who had met Luke in Greece. Luke was Australian, and he remet Ruppert in London. Ruppert invited him to some Christmas party that Caroline, his stepmother, was holding, and that was when he and Caroline hit it off.
The experts analyse everything. The day he was murdered, only Guy was in the house and Luke had sent him to be at 9.30. The experts think that Luke must have known his murderer as the gate was not forced, so it means that either the killer knew the entrance code or Luke let him/her in. There is a unidentified caller who phoned Luke from a public phone in the afternoon, and maybe the caller was the killer.
I find the way the novel is developed very original and interesting. I can't wait to discover the clues that the experts will find and solve the murder.
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