Midsummer: Donegal Crescent, a quiet residential street on the edge of Brockwell Park in south London. A husband and wife are discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. They are badly dehydrated, have been beaten, and the husband is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When DI Jack Caffery of the Met's murder squad, Amit, is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment. And as Jack digs deeper, as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both the past and the present, the real nightmare begins. Horrifying, unforgettable, intense, 'The Treatment' is a novel that touches the raw nerve of our darkest imaginings.
I have no idea how to rate this book. On one hand, it was haunting, unbearably suspenseful and riveting. On the other hand, it was was so horrifying that I nearly couldn't finish it.
The book's plot concerns children being raped and killed, and while not detailed, was graphic enough that the book was nearly intolerable. Just too much for me.
So, I'll leave this unrated because although well written, I just can't bring myself rate it.
Edit: gave it 4 stars because the book was written so excellently that it's still haunting me weeks later.
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