Rabbit Hole: The new masterpiece from the Sunday Times number one bestseller

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She has been sectioned following a major breakdown caused by the traumatic death of a colleague that she feels responsible for. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Grove Atlantic via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham for review.

After witnessing her police partner’s murder, Alice Armitage experiences a psychotic episode and is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. When one of the patients in the ward is murdered, Alice decides she is the perfect person to solve the crime since she has so much experience in investigations.Right then, with a body cooling just yards away, it was no more than a feeling and I try to steer clear of those, with good reason.

When one of her fellow patients is murdered, Alice secretly mounts her own investigation and becomes convinced she knows who the killer is.Not because the writing isn't good, or that the characters aren't fully fleshed or the suspenseful tension isn't there; it's because from the outset you know that the narrator has mental health issues. It is from here that things become extremely tangled and our viewpoint within Alice’s brain becomes heightened with delusions, fragmented memories, and deep-seated pain. The mind of Billingham is devious and twisted, he will take a common misconception in mental health and twist and turn it until it no longer resembles what it once was. Here, Billingham gives us perhaps the most unreliable narrator of all: A woman sectioned into a mental health ward following a psychotic episode brought on by PTSD.