The Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin)

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Originally from Northumberland, she graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in Film Studies and moved to London to begin a career writing about entertainment. This would certainly make for a spellbinding mystery to follow in The Suspect season 1’s footsteps and would retain Joe as the main character anchoring the plot from season 1 to a potential season 2. Solid, smart, and compelling, this is a legal thriller that holds one's interest from start to finish. When the waste ground behind his house is approved for development, it spells trouble for Alex, who is hiding a big secret – but what? It’s only as The Suspect ending approached that DI Ruiz finally began to take his claim that he was being framed more seriously.

If you thought you misbehaved in the nineties you've got nothing on the devious, duplicitous cast of this book. Gina Roake has been out of practicing law, since her husbands death, and never actually tried a murder.Photograph: ITV This will do very nicely indeed … Aidan Turner as Dr Joseph O’Loughlin in The Suspect. Fairly surprising ending, actually two endings with all the loose ends tied up so we can get back to Dismas and Abe, I hope. The homicide cop, Devin Juhle, is stereotypical (I've made up my mind so don't confuse me with the facts! This is my first Lescroart book and perhaps I did not make a wise choice in selecting it, or perhaps I am too critical since I appear to be one of the few reviewers who thought this book less than brilliant.

But it is not quite enough to disrupt the otherwise polished proceedings that work a notch above the purely formulaic.

In the final scenes of The Suspect ending viewers saw the O'Loughlin family happy as Joe's narration declared, “All you can do is try to live with your scars, and maybe, one day, heal. The final episode also saw Joe’s relationship with the police mended and with DI Ruiz taking a major role in the second Joe O’Loughlin book, that again could be seen to set up this bond ready if there ever was to be a The Suspect season 2. As always Louise Candlish has written a taut, unsettling, compulsive and ingenious novel with gasp-out-loud twists and fatally flawed characters forced into tragedy by circumstances.

Joe O’Loughlin (Aidan Turner) has had nothing short of an absolute nightmare over the course of The Suspect, with one death of a patient suddenly triggering a downward spiral that had him accused of being a serial killer.A partner in the firm of Dismas Hardy, who started the series, Gina's had plenty of courtroom experience, but none on a murder case. Roake and private investigator Wyatt Hunt have great chemistry and it is always nice to have even a cameo appearance from Dismas Hardy in Lescroart novel.

Naturally the police, lead by detective Devin Juhle, consider the husband the prime suspect, and the circumstantial evidence does seem to support that theory. One of the applications, which he has failed to look through in a timely fashion, for the role of receptionist at the doctor’s private practice is from the victim, now identified as Catherine McCain, an X-ray technician. Nice plot with a number misdirections that kept you in suspense as well as some interesting court room situations.From episodes of Our House to the finale that lead into Shetland season 7 there are plenty of thrillers that see investigators fix the primary characters firmly in their sights - rightly or wrongly. Even the detective, who comes across as a typical detective at points, surprises the reader with a few of his own actions.