We offer a free, year round Programme of learning for any professional working with or overseeing services for children and young people, including those in frontline roles up to strategic leads and commissioners. Um, no thanks. It’s called having some dignity?” you say as a question that isn’t really a question. Then you laugh. If I walk into that building, into what I assume is the lobby of a condo building, I can’t be anonymous. People don’t casually walk into lobbies of private residential buildings. I am not calm exactly, certainly not what I would describe as normal; far from that. A dull ringing fills my ears and the THUMP-THUMP, THUMP-THUMP of my pulse echoes through me, a bellowing bass drum no symphony orchestra could match. Still, my hand does not shake as I reach for the inside door handle, an ornate gold latch you’d expect to open a vault of princely treasures. But no jewels or riches beyond this door, only danger. I am not supposed to be here, inside Lauren’s house. You mean I’m not stuffy? I don’t use footnotes or Latin words? You know how I feel about footnotes and-”

And you don’t live in Chicago per se. You live in Grace Village, just west of the city. In the next town over from where I live, Grace Park.I’m not going to say much about the plot but there is a woman who has a past history with Simon, who was found murdered and hanging from a bannister in her home. Secrets begin to unravel. In communication with or accompanied by older peers or adults who appear to be overseeing or controlling where they are travelling to? Yes, I know how you feel about footnotes.” He reaches out with his hands, as if beseeching me. “But law professors use footnotes! Law professors use Latin!” Look Closer should be somebody's very influential Book Club selection and then sell a million copies. It's that good, that suspenseful, sexy, involving, twisty and twisted. I'll tell you what - Look Closer is James Patterson's Book Club selection. You won't forget this novel, and these characters - good and bad - for a long time."

But one thing is for sure. Nothing is what it seems. They are anything but normal. And one of them may be a killer. Actually, he wears bow ties so people will ask him about it, and he can reluctantly reveal that he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, who wore bow ties, and then served as an aide to U.S. senator Paul Simon, who also wore them. Oh, this? Well, I suppose it’s kind of an homage, if you must know . . . The fun is figuring out what parts of the story — if any — should be trusted.Though Ellis juggles a great many plot strands, he doesn’t drop them; the result is wildly entertaining, not tedious. It helps that just about every character in the book is the very definition of unreliable.”– New York Times Book Review Young people have a lot going on in their lives. Changes of behaviour could be any number of things. However, there are certain changes that could be signs of online grooming and exploitation: I can honestly say that I found it to be addicting. I listened to the audible every waking moment I had when I was not working and finished it in record time.What follows is more than your average murder mystery...where sex, money, lies, secret lives, burner phones, a mysterious journal, and a hefty trust fund of 20 MILLION dollars all have a part to play in the fabulously twisty, knotted, complex, and expertly crafted tale! Can you figure out WHO launched that fated rope over the banister on Halloween night, WHAT the perp had to gain, WHERE the murderer first saw Lauren, WHEN the plot was hatched, WHY it had to be Lauren...and HOW on earth they are confident they'll escape with more than just their freedom...but the 20 million dollar windfall to boot?? Okay, first of all,” I say, leaning forward, “I do not and would not listen to Panic! at the Disco. And now it matters what music I listen to?” Add in a 20-million-dollar trust fund, a con man financial advisor, an old unsolved murder, and the two detectives working the case. Throw in lies, affairs, greed, and revenge. Top it all off with red herrings galore, twists upon twists, and a plot so diabolical there is no chance of guessing where this is going. A daring, brilliant thriller, full of characters you both love and hate and more unexpected turns than a mountain road at night without your headlights. Tremendous fun!”– Scott Turow, bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial The less you know going in, the better, so my review is deliberately vague.The plot is a complex one, but the author ties it all together in the end. Hang on tight, because it is quite the roller coaster! The author is a judge and I must say I like the way his mind works.

During these awareness weeks we are also highlighting how grooming children into committing crime, as well as for sexual activity, increasingly takes place online, including through games and social media. Growing numbers of young people are being approached to sometimes unwittingly hold proceeds of crime in their bank accounts,

Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer team up to exonerate a woman who’s already served five years for killing her ex-husband. David Ellis’s LOOK CLOSER is a daring, brilliant thriller, full of characters you both love and hate and more unexpected turns than a mountain road at night without your headlights. Tremendous fun!” Guests refusing to provide identification, leave credit card details and/or with little or no luggage