An audio book. Some sections are from Hannah's 3rd-person PoV, some from Jem's 1st person PoV. At the end, Rupert gets a section. In a UK where, as a form of restorative justice, criminals are caged in the victim's home (costing £20k/year compared to prison's £38k), Jem is in Hannah's kitchen, accused of murdering her policeman husband. She's a freelance cake maker and diabetic. He came from a broken home and is a pickpocket but wanted to study literature at university. He repeatedly pleads his innocence, and as she follows up some loose threads of her husband John's life she begins to believe his story. Her friend Ashleen keeps turning up in her investigations. She's murdered, and Hannah's told to stop being nosy. She discovers that Ashleen was her husband's lover. She finds a bag with £60k in it.
In a moment of madness she sleeps with Jem and gets pregnant. They plan to escape together. Jem has something to hide - in storage he has something which will give him access to lots of money which he plans to give away to save the life of Lucas, who he'd guiltily wronged. He's often more loyal to Lucas than Hannah.
I like "like 2 people who realise they listen to the same obscure podcast". To make the plot work, there are coincidences, and characters (e.g. Jem's ex) behave unexpectedly. E.g. Why should John have waited for Rupert to climb down the wall? Why make it such a difficult surface? Wouldn't a drainpipe have sufficed? More than one character use "clock" as a verb, to mean "notice".
I'd guessed who the real baddy was.
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