This book is told from two points of view. The first is from the stalker and the other is in the third person.
How great is that, I love books from different points of view so you can see just what everyone is thinking, excellent book.

Tyrone Swift is an ex police officer who now works privately. He has a complicated private life. Usually he works in London but this case takes him to Kent.

The case involves a stalker and a missing child. The characters are interesting enough for you to care about the outcome. There are twists and turns keeping you interested until the very end.

There is a lot going on in this one. When I started, I thought the love life of the main character was complicated... and it sure is, but so is the case. There were several times I had to highlight a name to remember who a certain character was. There's a very helpful character list and glossary of English slang at the end of the book. I read many books set in the UK and understand most if not all, but I think it's a fantastic idea. This story moves along quickly without sacrificing detail and definitely managed to stun me a few times. While it's part of a series, I read it as a standalone and other than some brief moments of confusion, it worked just fine.

Tyrone Swift used to be a police detective, but now he's a private investigator. It's clear that he sustained an injury that led to the new career path, but we aren't given much detail. We do find out immediately that he has a four month old daughter... with his married ex-fiance. They've just found out that the child is deaf or close to. The baby lives with her mother and her ailing husband, and Swift doesn't get to see her quite as often as he'd like. He dotes on her when he does, however. He shows interest in dating but very clearly still loves the unavailable mother of his child.

Swift has been contacted with a new case: a man who had his baby kidnapped several years ago has started to receive taunting emails. They're incredibly vague, but somewhat sinister in nature. Thomas Maddox is still grieving the loss of his son, and has experienced a string of incidents that may or may not be chalked up to just plain bad luck. That one terrible day destroyed his marriage and his life. He has little money, but his grandfather Gabe Maddox is well-off... an incredibly successful businessman who is paying Swift. He also seems to be a professional jerk. I enjoyed the parts of the story he was in because I never knew what he would do or say next, but was never a fan.

The emails begin to get more and more specific and venomous. This anonymous sender seems to know an awful lot about Thomas and the entire Maddox family... and even Swift. No one knows if baby Oscar is still alive or was killed shortly after he was kidnapped.

Not only must Swift deal with his ex and the life he wanted for his daughter changing, he's in the dark about the case. I really enjoyed reading about his lovely relationship with his little girl and the inner workings of his mind trying to solve the case before anyone gets hurt. This is a story filled with many interesting and multi-faceted characters and it really kept me guessing.

I received an ARC of this book from Net Galley and Joffe Books, thank you! My review is honest and unbiased.

This book had a great premise but was slow at times. It finally picked up over have way through the book but the ending was a disappointment. It felt rushed and just abruptly stopped.

This is another book in the series featuring private investigator Tyrone Swift.

I have read two of the earlier books by Great Mulrooney. I liked the writing style and the way they stand well alone.

The characters are cleverly developed and this slowly turns into an enticing mystery.
Why was the child abducted?
Who is sending the emails?
Are the two things linked?

What happens next? A body.
There are certainly plenty of twists and turns as the story unfolds.
Most of the questions are answered.
But are they all?

At times this was a 3*, but I settled on 4*

My thanks to Netgalley and Joffe Books for a copy in exchange for this review.

Thank you for sending me the advanced copy of this book. I didn't realise there were others in the series, as I thought it was a stand alone novel. I shall, of course, read the others now.

The book is certainly different being a private investigator as the main character. Poor Ty, I thought for a long time he was wading through treacle trying to find out who the "watcher" was. Gabe was a pig and there were a few odd nods thrown into the mix. It could have been anyone, but I have to say alarm bells did ring with the character who I now know is the watcher early on in the book, i just couldn't quite piece it together.

A thoroughly enjoyable read and extremely well thought out. Had me puzzled as an avid crime reader!!!

Thank you to Joffe Publishers for sending me an advanced copy.

Another decent instalment in the Swift series sees him dealing with a complex and twisted case while still trying to navigate his eventful personal life.
I look forward to the next book in the series.

Thomas Maddox has been receiving nasty, threatening emails. He believes they're coming from someone who knows about or was involved in the kidnapping of his 6-month-old son, who was taken from his pram 2 years ago. The police never found him and are not interested reopening the case based on the emails. Thomas' grandfather Gabe hires Tyrone, ex policeman turned PI, to look into the emails and find the perpetrator. Ty himself is living under a cloud, he has a daughter with his ex-girlfriend, not the easiest woman to deal with, making his life difficult. He's an extremely likeable character, kind, thoughtful and determined to do right. He's the main reason I love this series. The fact that all the books are highly readable and full of suspense puts icing on the cake. Even though I sort of guessed the who (but not the why), the ending was still a surprise...very gripping.
The grandfather was a pain in the neck, he needed a good slap, but that added to the tension and made things interesting. An excellent read!
Thank you Netgalley and Joffe Books for the eARC.

A gripping read I couldn't put down from beginning to end. A top read

Great read! Looking forward to reading more by this author!

Tyrone Swift is an ex-police detective, now working as a Private Investigator. He's got quite a background ...he got stabbed which meant he could no longer function as a detective. He had a lady friend who had his child, but she's married to another man. His infant daughter, they have found, in deaf. And though he will always love the mother of his child, he's really tempted by police detective Nora Morrow.

A man has called Tyrone and wants to hire him to find his son, who was abducted 2 years ago. The police investigated and questioned hundreds of people, followed all the leads that presented themselves, but it still remains unsolved and the child is still missing.

The child's father, Thomas, has started receiving strange emails. They allude to his missing son, and they seem to be threatening. Thomas admits that since his son disappeared, he has had many mishaps.... his house broken into, he was assaulted on the street, and several other instances of things happening.

Tyrone feels for certain that if he can find the person writing the emails, he will find the man who took the child.

There are family secrets that no one seems to want to share with Tyrone. And he's not so sure that Thomas has all the answers. His grand-father knows things .. but won't tell. His girlfriend seems to be supportive and loving ... but is she really? The child's mother has moved on and is living off and on with a new man.

Even though this is the latest of a series, it does well as a stand-alone. As usual I would recommend starting with THE LADY VANISHED, Book 1. This is a compelling series, well-written, with cleverly drawn characters.

I really like the merging of Tyrone's professional life with his personal life. It makes Tyrone seem so much more credible ... not a superhero by any means, but someone who cares about his job and never crosses the line.

Many thanks to the author / Joffe Books / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

Watching You is well-written and the scenes are quite descriptive, but the pace is almost agonizingly slow in the first half of the book. There is a mystery to solve, but other than the creepy emails and thoughts of the Watcher, it seemed like a lot of random conversations that led nowhere.
The pace does start to pick up some a little more than half-way through the book, and things gradually start to come together - and I do mean gradually. The problem is it was just a little too late at that point.
For me, the appeal of a mystery is trying to suss out the clues to solve it before the big reveal. A few of those clues along the way might've helped with making this reader want to keep reading rather than set it aside for a bit. That was the biggest issue, it was just entirely too easy to set it aside when I came to the end of a chapter.
We do get quite a bit about the main character's (Tyrone Swift) personal life. Sadly, I became more interested in where that was going than in the actual case he was working.
On a positive note, the pace does pick up and there is a fair bit of action in the last few chapters.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for an advance copy of Watching You, the fourth novel to feature PI Tyrone Swift.

Ty is engaged by the Maddox family, grandfather Gabe and grandson Thomas to investigate a series of menacing e-mails they have been receiving which include references to Thomas's son Oscar who was abducted from his pram two years before.

I enjoyed Watching You. There is nothing particularly new in it, the family have a stalker who is slowly escalating and the PI blunders around until a few random events lead him to a solution, but it is well done. The e-mails are creepy, Thomas's fear and instincts seem real and the extent of the stalker's manipulation is a masterclass in misdirection, although I had a good idea of who but not why by about half way through - a coincidence too many. I'm not normally a fan of the current vogue for italicised chapters of the perpetrator's thoughts but I was impressed with them in this novel. They are not overly intrusive but convey perfectly his psychopathic sense of entitlement and need to hit out.

Ty Swift is a good protagonist. He is a genuinely nice man but no pushover. He has some ongoing personal problems, like a new daughter with his married ex girlfriend, which he handles delicately until enough is enough. It is good to see that situation edging towards a solution as sometimes these types of stories begin to get repetitive over several novels. He is also a smart and dedicated detective, even when dealing with the secretive and extremely obnoxious Gabe Maddox whom everyone else would have told to sling his hook!

Watching You is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.

5 stars

This book is told from two points of view. The first is from the stalker and the other is in the third person.

Ty Swift meets at Thomas Maddox’ caravan to discuss the odd accidents and threatening emails he has been receiving. His six-month old son was also kidnapped two years earlier. The case remains unsolved. Thomas is a shy and unassuming person. It is very hard to believe that he would take advantage or offend anyone. Are the incidents connected?

It seems Thomas’ grandfather Gabe has also been getting these emails. Gabe is the opposite of Thomas. He is somewhat combative and a very forthright business man. The sender of the latest one knows almost immediately that Gabe has hired a private investigator.

Gabe sets out to interview various individuals who may or may not have a grudge against the family Maddox, including Thomas’ ex-wife, the mother of the missing boy Oscar. He meets all kinds of personalities along the way; the defensive, the nice, the cantankerous and all those in between. He speaks with countless people and begins to make perhaps a little headway into the case.

The emails, strange “accidents” and general badgering continue. Then tragedy strikes. Still at a loss, Swift flounders about for a bit and then it all comes together. He knows where Oscar is. He knows who the stalker is. In a thrilling and exciting denouement, Swift rushes to prevent an even greater tragedy.

This book is very well written and plotted. It builds suspense immediately. The reader is entranced from the beginning on hearing Thomas’ story. The characters are well drawn and enough information is given about their backgrounds to be interesting, but not so much that it detracts from the story. This is my first Gretta Mulrooney book, but it won’t be my last. I immediately went to Amazon to look at her other novels.

I want to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for forwarding to me a copy of this great book to read.