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My only criticism of the book is that it has an overabundance of flawed characters who were available at the right time and place for the exploitation of main characters in the story.

Apart from this very convenient plotting tool the story had all the right ingredients of a bestseller. Pace, alternate viewpoints between victim and suspect, and chapter cliff-hangers at regular intervals. The reader has to peel away the layers of each character as they tell their story, sort though truths, lies and diabolical mindsets, while surprises never stop up to the last few pages.

It is a fictional, over-the-top, study of love and marriage gone toxic. Do we really know the person we are married to? Is the image they have shown us in the first flush of love their true self, or is it just a mask? This is a question the novel grapples with, when Nick Dunne's wife Amy disappears on their fifth anniversary. Things do not look good for Nick as every clue uncovered points that he had murdered her.

Great holiday read because once you start you cannot stop.