Cattive compagnie | 
panI‘m not really in the mood for reading at the moment, so my opinion might also have to do with that.
In the first half all that “happy-couple”-/“mourning-widow”-stuff annoyed me. This was better in the second half – at first. But then the story began to only be woven from trapdoor to trapdoor. This was annoying and more and more confusing.
Was wrong with the villain but right in another detail.
Conclusion: No recommendation, too lenghthy.
Oh please, not once again the old narration of: “I‘m the muscle packed elder brother of this protagonist and you weed better don‘t touch her.”
And then she says something like: “Please don‘t do him harm. Let him in. Because, you know, he can‘t do anything to me as long as you, huge elder brother, stay by my side to protect me.“
Excuse me, need to see the bathroom, suddenly feel so ill. 🤢
(But: she‘s a tough girl, able to defend herself. 🙄)
How come that on the one hand you want to shake your protagonist heavily because she makes mistakes that even _I_ can identify, only to, on the other hand, come to a clever conclusion I never would have drawn one and a half pages later❓🤔
Explanations anyone❓
The only implausibility to me is Kate. A one-year-constantly-mourning widow, ill enough to have still not gone back to work on the one hand. And on the other hand, she portrays herself as tough London-East-End-girl who knows how to defend herself and how to shake people off.
I know, she‘s supposed to be multi-layered – but I don‘t really buy it because she‘s moping so much. (Her husband is dead and she‘s the only one knowing how painful loss is.)
Even though it created the impression to be rather old – I researched, it‘s from 2010 which in my eyes is not too old – it can‘t be so bad since I‘m half through.
I‘m pretty sure I can correctly guess the villain 🦹♂️ but I don‘t bother. It‘s entertaining since enough of the denouement is kept secret.
After my last bad choice – don‘t judge a book by its cover – I try this rather old one.
It‘s about Kate who grieves for her love and soulmate Charlie who died in an accident. Then she spots someone on the vacation pics of someone else who looks really similar to Charlie. She is puzzled and starts to search for him.
One of the rare occasions where my mum sorting out books means „new in“ to me
