This was well plotted but really it ran into melodrama. My memory of May’s earlier books is of dense plotting, linguistic challenges (they are all set in the Hebrides) and a very tight narrow local community.
This one starts in Paris with a terrorist like car bomb to get the plot moving and then reverts back to the Hebrides, so we have a much wider canvass, but I am not sure that that improves the quality.
400+ pages of good weekend reading, but lacking an any great substance – perhaps you could say that of any thriller, but the miraculous reunion of the childhood sweethearts, one of whom was conclusively dead for most of the book, at the end, was a bit sugary for my taste.
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