Sam Hayes offers the reader an emotional roller coaster, forcing him to sympathize with the heroes, then cringe with fear, then eagerly follow what is happening. "Carrie Kent has it all - star status, fame, money, a luxury home. Carrie Kent has nothing. Because her teenage son's body is found at the school gates. The boy was killed by stabbing several times. And Carrie, so ruthless about the heroes of her TV shows discussing all manner of shocking stories, is herself the subject of an investigation. How did it happen that her only son, such an ordinary and prosperous boy, died? Yes, even such a terrible death?..."