This is the second in the Jonah Sheens series. I really enjoyed the first book, but it took me slightly longer to engage with this one. Aidan Poole is attempting to Skype with his girlfriend when he sees someone entering her apartment and then it’s apparent something violent happens off screen. He reports the incident but for some reason, doesn’t give his name or contact info. Sure enough, she’s been murdered. Will the police believe him? And why the hesitancy about giving his name? Part of my i...

Aidan is on Skype with his girlfriend Zoe when he hears the sounds of a struggle. He's concerned about Zoe, but his call to the police is cryptic. The police investigate and find Zoe has been killed. Their investigation leads to a unique group of people each connected to Zoe.This is the second book in the DCI Jonah Sheens series, but Watching from the Dark can be read as a standalone. I've read the first book, and found this second book to be a little better. Both are good reads for fans of Brit...

Solid book! Even without reading the first book in this series, I completely followed the plot. If not for his name in the title, I wouldn't placed Jonah as the primary character. Just something I found interesting. I do plan to read the next book as well.Overall, it was a tidy little thriller that I did enjoy.*Thanks to Netgalley and publishers for the free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Aidan Poole is online waiting for a video chat to begin with his girlfriend Zoe when he hears sounds of a struggle in her apartment, but he doesn’t call the police immediately. He does eventually point them to her apartment where they find her dead. The book alternates between the current police investigation and a description of Zoe’s relationships with Aidan and her other friends, family and acquaintances (all of them whiny and dependent), many of whom are suspects in the case. This is the sec...

**4.5-stars rounded up **Watching From the Dark was everything I was hoping for. Gytha Lodge, you have made me a very happy girl!Signing on to his late night Skype date with his girlfriend, Zoe, Aidan Poole can tell right away something is off.For one, Zoe isn't in front of the camera. He observes her moving through her apartment, but then she goes into the bathroom and starts running a bath. Anticipating something kinky may be in the works, he sits back, watches and waits.Things take a disturbi...

Okay, it’s another fast and intriguing reading burned a lot of my grey cells. (Dunking my head in icy bucket to put down the fire) I have to admit I had a great time ( Even though my grey cells packed their bags and want to abandon my head forever)The book is starting fast. We’re quickly introduced (actually we are not! Correction: We just see a random guy name Aidan who sits in front of his computer and we are not sure if he is pervert or a normal human being! He may be soul twin of Joe Goldber...

Watching from the Dark (DCI Jonah Sheens #2) by Gytha Lodge (Author), John Hopkins (Narrator), Vinette Robinson (Narrator)When Aidan Poole sits down for his late night session with his girlfriend, Zoe, he's miffed that she's late, again. Her Skype has started and he's staring at her empty chair while hearing her run a bath. Then he thinks he sees the front door open and the shadow of a figure, the sound of Zoe being surprised when someone enters the bathroom and then sounds of a struggle. Then n...

Watching From the Dark by Gytha Lodge is a 2020 Random House publication. When Adrian Poole logs on the internet to accept a Skype call with Zoe, his girlfriend, he’s annoyed to discover she’s not in the camera’s view. But, as he continues to watch, he believes something bad has happed to Zoe. But, because of the circumstances of their relationship, instead of calling the police, like any other concerned person would, he leaves an anonymous message, instead. It’s not until DCI Jonah Sheen happen...

This the sequel to Gytha Lodge's DCI Jonah Sheens of the Hampshire Constabulary series, a sequel I was really keen to read after enjoying She Lies In Wait. This is a multilayered blend of psychological thriller and police procedural, and it has a intriguing and fabulous beginning. Aidan Poole is a lecturer, on his laptop late at night, on skype to his girlfriend, Zoe Swardadine, only she has made her way to have a bath. He is waiting, looking at her flat, when he hears someone enter the flat, go...

Creepy, Eerie And Suspenseful!Late in the evening Aiden Poole is on Skype impatiently waiting for his girlfriend to arrive when he hears her splashing in the bathtub and wonders why is she teasing him this way and then he sees a shadow across the room and a door quietly open yet still hears his girl in the bathroom. What's going on? Does she know she is not alone or did she invite a friend over to chat, or? It's very dark on the screen but now Aiden is hearing struggling sounds and the hairs on

I didn't realize, upon requesting this ARC, that it was the second in a series of books.I wish I had. Although I suppose you could consider this a stand-alone, the characters (those in the police force) weren't fleshed out at all. As I was reading, it felt as though I should know who all these people were, and their back stories; but I didn't. It was this big, huge hole that I couldn't fill because I hadn't read book one. Beyond that, the writing had a quality which I found...floundering. The st...

Well that was delightful.Loving this series and loving Gytha Lodge's style.I am eager for more cases with these detectives!Much love to NetGalley & Random House Publishing Group - Random House for my DRC.

4.5 Stars. Gytha Lodge previously wrote She Lies In Wait, a meticulous police procedural which was one of my favourite books in 2019. I was thrilled to learn that there was a second book featuring the same team of police detectives. Watching From the Dark proves that her first intricately plotted, complex novel which detailed the work necessary in solving crimes was not beginners' luck and places her among the top authors of slow-burning British police procedural/ psychological thrillers..The be...

3.5 starsA man waits for his girlfriend to pick up his Skype call. Waiting for her on the webcam, he sees something in her apartment that he wasn't expecting to see—her murder. Concept: ★★★★ 1/2Characters: ★★★Mystery(s)/Reveal(s): ★★★Watching from the Dark comes out on February 25, 2020.Watching From the Dark is the second novel in the British detective series centered on DCI Jonah Sheens and his police team, Hanson, Lightman, and O'Malley. Aidan Poole is waiting for Zoe on Skype one night, and

In brief - Decent enough read and very good in parts.In fullI read and enjoyed Gytha Lodge's first book. While I wasn't blown away by it it was a decent crime read and I did like a couple of the characters in it. One them was DCI Jonah Sheens and this book finds him involved in another puzzling case. Aidan is on his computer late at night to call his girlfriend Zoe on Skye. He realises that there seems to be someone else in her flat and then hears a violent struggle taking place. It all goes qui...

So imagine this. You’re on the computer late one night, waiting for your girlfriend to appear on your Skype feed. You can see her empty living room & it sounds like she’s in the bath. Suddenly, in the corner of the screen, you see the edge of her front door slowly open. Soft foot steps echo down the hallway. The next thing you hear is the sound of splashing water. Minutes later, you watch in horror as the front door quietly closes. Silence. Aidan Poole doesn’t have to imagine it. He’s left stari...

This was my first experience of Lodge's DCI Sheen's series, the engaging plot works really well as a standalone mystery.In a way it felt very relevant as Adian Poole witnessed his girlfriend Zoe being murdered on Skype.Where the mystery deepens is Adain's reluctance to report the crime to the police - eventually telling them anonymously the following day.The narrative includes various flashbacks as the reader learns more of Zoe's backstop and her circle of friends.This leads to more than one sus...

Aiden Poole is sitting with his laptop waiting to Skype with his sort-of girlfriend, Zoe. He's waiting for her to get out of the shower, when he's horrified to see that someone is in her apartment. Did she have company? Or is this an intruder?He hears fighting coming from the bathroom ... and then there's silence ... utter silence. . He is desperate to find out if Zoe is okay. But then why is he so hesitant to call the police?DCI Jonah Sheens and his team take the case. The phone call they recei...

I loved Gytha Lodge's first novel and her second is just as compelling - we have the same detective team but as with the last book the story is mostly driven by the group dynamic of the characters caught up in a murder...Zoe dies, watched in part from afar by someone with a lot to lose should he report it - from then on in we have a beautifully plotted and presented mystery with insightful twists and turns, an eclectic and absorbing set of darkly intriguing suspects leading towards an unpredicta...