Meanwhile, we meet forty-one-year-old Nick Miller, husband to Kate, a resident of The Big Smoke and a private school art teacher who was brought up in shared student accommodation in Exeter by his mother, Cora, who recently passed away, and her partner, April. It doesnt have to be dramatic but it draws you in and makes you feel welcome and you just know that you are going to enjoy the experience. Nick and Wada’s paths eventually collide in Iceland where the stakes will be raised for both of them as they uncover a plot of corruption, fraud and pure greed. The agency is hired by Mimori Takenaga to investigate her father’s apparent suicide in London twenty seven years ago. So unremarkable that they pass through life almost unnoticed – perfect for the invisible detection referred to in the title.

Robert Goddard's latest thriller is an intricate and complicated piece of fiction, set primarily in Japan, London, Cornwall and Iceland. In the smartest of prose and with a stunningly fast-moving plot, Goddard brings us the heroine we've been waiting for.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. I also felt the plot was dragged out for the sake of leading the reader around the houses - it's great to have some misleading red herrings in a crime fiction, but for me the book could have achieved the same result in fewer pages, and then it would've skipped the bit in the middle where it felt like nothing happened! Umiko Wada lives in Tokyo, she wants to live an unassuming life, she doesn’t want excitement she just wants to get through the day without any hassle.

They will all be sharing their favourite books, as well as reviewing this week’s two book club picks: Our Big Hitter from last year, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and the first of our new books, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard.I appreciated the intricately woven narrative in my second reading of this book changing my two star designation to 4 star due to the masterful intricately woven dynamic action start to finish. For one thing, I think the way the author has framed the story using the Tokyo subway sarin atrocity is, frankly, rather distasteful. Since then, his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting.