Lynn Davis

I found this book through the New York Times in 2025, a recommendation one of the Times' writers noted as her favorite thrillers. I checked out an audio version (14 hours long) and really got into the author's language and the reader's voice(s). Note: this thriller does not go from Point A to B easily, like. most thrillers. It sets up first-person narrative from a detective assigned to a recent murder. Throughout the narration about the murder and investigation, the detective weaves a story of a horrifying event in his childhood and notes the smallest details of his investigative partner, in ways a lover might note. Like life, much of the narration is not neatly resolved and wrapped up. And that is the beauty of this book.