A review by anetq
The Jump by Doug Johnstone

4.0

This is a novel about unimaginable grief and how people try to live with it: Out main character has lost her son to suicide - without any explication or warning signs. Her husbond has delved into conspiracy theories to find an explanation. She swims and goes to the bridge her son jumped off in a daily ritual. One day she saves another teenager about to jump off the bridge - and this might have turned into a story about consolation and dealing with grief, but there is that pesky detail about the bloody clothes he's wearing... This is also very much a crime mystery and there will be blood!
Very nicely written and again; like the best of the scots - a crime novel with different motivations and background story than the run of the mill psycho killer.