I have never read James Hayman before but I will certainly go back and read the first 4 books in the series. Even though this was book #5 there was no feeling that I had missed something by not reading the others first. I didn’t even realize it was a series until after I had finished reading. The story itself was told from two timelines – 12 years earlier when Hannah had been brutally raped by members of Holden College’s football team and the present – several months after Hannah’s suicide when one of the rapists is reported missing. McCabe and Savage do a great job of uncovering clues and one by one dismissing the red herrings thrown in the way. The Girl on the Bridge is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery and a sad look at the lasting effects of campus rape.