Review: I'll Keep You Safe

I'll Keep You Safe by Peter May
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

WHATEVER HAPPENS

Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business trip to Paris to promote their luxury brand, Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair, and then looks on as he and his lover are killed by a car bomb. She returns home to Lewis, bereft.

I'LL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU

Niamh begins to look back on her life with Ruairidh, desperate to identify anyone who may have held a grudge against him. The French police, meanwhile, have ruled out terrorism, and ruled in murder - and sent Detective Sylvie Braque to shadow their prime suspect: Niamh.

I'LL KEEP YOU SAFE, NO MATTER WHAT

As one woman works back through her memories, and the other moves forward with her investigation, the two draw ever closer to a deadly enemy with their own, murderous, designs.

Niamh and Ruairidh seem the perfect couple - happily married, running a successful business and living in a fantastic home in a beautiful part of the Scottish isles. Then Niamh begins to suspect Ruairidh may be having an affair but before she can discover the truth he is killed by a car bomb in Paris.

The story focuses on the crime but there are also flashbacks told by Niamh in the 1st person giving us the background to their lives and who might have wanted Ruairidh dead. It's not too confusing but I found it a bit annoying at times.

The back story is needed to show the reasoning behind the outcome. There were some attempts to make the book suspenseful but it didn't really work for me. Some events didn't ring true and the twist at the end didn't work for me either. Not sure it would be consistent with forensics techniques.

I did enjoy reading it but I probably wouldn't search out other books by the author.

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