For a small town Fordley is having a high proportion of "accidental deaths".  But the local pathologist sees a pattern in the random deaths and flags the anomalies to her friend and Forensic Psychologist, Jo.  Jo already has a bit of a reputation for getting herself involved in murder investigations so she decides to give the data a look over.

Jo realises that Elle may be right, there are some major red flags over the psychology of these suspicious deaths and as delves into the individual cases, a common factor appears to link them all!

I loved meeting Jo, she is such a deliciously complicated character.  She has flaws, blind spots and biases just like everyone else. Her relationship with Cal was over before it began really and now Ed wants to move them on to the next stage and she finds herself distancing herself.  I really did want to give her a hug at times.  

She is quite a good judge of character overall and I loved the scenes in the police station incident room.  I actually work with the same kind of team in another area and the banter, dark humour, casual threats of bodily harm are all so true to life!  Whilst of course there are some artistic twists on the investigation, most of the techniques and procedures are ones that I'm very familiar with.

There were plenty of twists and turns and my very cynical brain did make a jump to the right "baddie", I didn't quite get the motivation right.

I really enjoyed meeting Jo and the crew and I'm going to go find the previous books in this series and add them to the TBR!