Fresh Doubt

When a brilliant psychology student finds her roommate's body and becomes the prime suspect, she has one desperate hope: convincing FBI Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg to find the real killer. Ingrid operates out of the US Embassy in London, tough and relentless in ways that trace back to a loss she's never fully outrun. As she digs into the case, the danger escalates fast — and the closer she gets to the truth, the more it feels personal. Eva Hudson builds a story where the emotional stakes match the procedural ones, making it impossible to stay detached from either the investigation or the woman driving it.

Hudson writes with economy and momentum, the kind of prose that doesn't waste a sentence. Ingrid is a protagonist with genuine complexity — capable and driven, but quietly haunted — and Hudson resists the temptation to over-explain her. The London setting is rendered with specific, unglamorous authenticity, grounding the thriller in something that feels real rather than atmospheric backdrop. Readers who enjoy character-driven crime fiction will find Fresh Doubt rewards close attention while still delivering the propulsive pull of a well-constructed thriller.