The Fine Art of Invisible Detection: The thrilling BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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I needed to concentrate while reading this book because i didn't want to miss any important details. Well, Wada might be an unlikely detective, but when she sets her mind on something she will not be thrown off track.

My first impression was maybe it was a book for a younger audience but that was based solely on the front cover. She wants to find out what Caldwell knows about her father’s contact with a Westerner in a photograph she’s seen, but instead of flying to London to meet him, she asks Kodaka to help. Almost as if the middle-aged untravelled Japanese woman is actually a well-travelled Western man for whom this wouldn't be a big deal, hmmmm. We're talking about a lived-in-Japan-all-her-life heroine who's not remotely a wealthy global traveller yet who is completely blase about whipping around the Western world, finding her way around the UK, nipping off to the USA and then Iceland, without any sense of tiredness or fear or culture shock (Tokyo to Reykjavik?She's such an endearing character you're willing her on all the way (even if, admittedly, some of her escapades may be a little if a stretch! Nick knows little of Nolan, other than Geoff never wanted to know anything about him, so he tries to find out more from his mother's partner, April. As with many crime novels set in Iceland, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection puts a significant multiplier on the country’s normally low murder rate.

With a slew of harmful secrets just waiting to unravel and leak out will Umiko, Nick and Martin survive this unfamiliar, perilous world? I can't say the same for Nick Miller (the other protagonist), he seemed washed out when compared to Wada. Martin wants to meet up rather urgently, with information about Nick’s father who, Nick has always believed, died when he was young. She is to meet a man in London who has information their client requires, if she can pass herself off as the client it will be an nice easy job for her except we know things never go to plan.

Unknown to her, someone else is on the same trail, Nick Miller, looking for information about the father he has never known. So, when he asks if she would travel to London to attend a meeting on behalf of a client, she packs her bag and gets on a plane. year old Londoner Nick Miller is married to Kate, a private school art teacher whose mother, Caro, has recently died. In the smartest of prose and with a stunningly fast-moving plot, Goddard brings us the heroine we've been waiting for.

A businessman who wants her to track down his estranged son offers what appears to be a straightforward assignment. She’s driven by the fact that Nishizaki not only had her boss murdered, but was connected to the leader of the cult that released the poison. However, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection is an intelligent and uplifting read that, despite the bad things that happen, feels pleasant and cultured. It’s well written and takes the action to some good settings such as Tokyo, London, Devon and Cornwall, New York and Iceland.There is more than one secret being hidden, and more than one person who will kill to make sure that those secrets remain hidden.