(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

During a torrential rainstorm, Gregory Samsa crashes his car into a tree. While he escapes with only a few scrapes, the passenger sitting next to him, a prostitute named Almond, does not survive. Samsa is a cop, and he knows he should call an ambulance and report the accident—but the truth is too ugly to reveal. He buries Almond in the woods and tries to get on with his life. But his life could be coming to an end sooner than he thinks.
When the young woman’s body is found, Samsa is the cop who catches the case. A moment of moral weakness has condemned him to a spiral of deception and guilt, but it could mean far worse—for there are dangerous men out there who want to know what happened that night in the rain.

Once upon a time, Campbell Armstrong was a go-to author for me. Jig has to be one of the better thriller novels written, so when I saw there was a new book to go and check out, I thought I would love to see what he is writing nowadays...

It isn't often when you say that a 230-page novel is too long. I really think a novella would have been a better format for this story. Wasn't suspenseful or gripping in the slightest. Lost any hope of that with the long-winded passages of nothingness...


Paul
ARH