Neil Cross, Burial

Neil Cross is the guy who created and writes the BBC show Luther—which you should watch if you're not already familiar with it. This connection led me to check out his prequel to the series, Luther: The Calling, a few months back, and it's now brought me to some non-Luther reading, Cross's Burial. It's a great story. Happily married greeting card salesman Nathan Redmond answers his door one night and is confronted by someone from his past. What his unwelcome guest has to say threatens to destroy Nathan's life and family. We backtrack to find out what happened ten years earlier—the event around which the whole story pivots—and what has happened since, so that when we return to the present we're more emotionally invested. Very compelling, very readable. I would certainly go on to read more by Cross, but unfortunately none of his other books have made it to Kindle yet, so I'll have to wait.