Jenny Harris

One of those rare times when a book is so engrossing that I read it in 2 days flat.

I loved this book. So unusual , about a reclusive man in the woods who experiences the absolute final straw - and quietly becomes incandescent , desperate with a need for revenge . And I rooted for him every step of the way .

I'm sorry , I didn't like it ..I couldn't even finish it (after reading halfway through . ) I found the stories so uneventful , so dull, maybe I just haven't got the patience for subtlety or something . Some of the sentences didnt make sense to me ....' sunburnt spines enclosed a world that the smell of old paper made what it was ' ' the whiskey talk was private now, a whisper from his orderly remembering that no longer nurtured panic' ....what ???? I gave up

I am Hating this stupid book. Reviews say I'm among many who are simply confused . Who ran away - the mother or the driver , or both? It doesn't make sense. I kept going back to the beginning......rereading the mothers bit.......who is not given a NAME . Agh it's exasperatilgly annoying . I abandoned it- life is too short !

Really well written, starts off gripping and intruiging....but gradually becomes RIDICULOUSLY convoluted . So much so that I stopped caring who lied to who and who killed who , and speed read the last 30 pages just to get the nonsense over with.

Absolutely in the vein of Agatha Christie. Remote snowbound hotel, guests gathered in the sitting room during a power cut and an icy storm, all suspecting each other of murder . Well written , some rich characters , although the actual murderer, I realised at the end, I could barely remember who that person was. The ' solving' of the murder was bordering on laughable , a convenient mislaid item In the snow....aha there's our murderer . It could have been planted? It could have been stolen ? Anyway , easy to read , sort of rather 1950s. Except they've all got ' cell phones' .