Just finished A Nail Through the Heart and absolutely loved it. It has everything that I find important (and sooo hard to find) in a mystery/thriller: It's a page-turner, the writing is great, the characters are believable and written with great depth, the plot makes sense and is for the most part unpredictable. I've already bought the next three books in the series for my iTouch, and bought two dead-tree copies of the first one for friends. I can't wait to start the next one!

However... Anyone thinking about reading this book needs to know that it's pretty brutal. A large part of the plot concerns the absolute worst kind of child abuse, plus there are scenes of (adult) torture. None of the scenes are gratuitous and these horrors are essential to the plot, but some people may find these sections of the book highly disturbing.