This is a good one!

The prologue drew me into the story quickly. It was a little nugget of information that's relevance is more clearly revealed later in the story. I enjoyed having that first event dangling in the back of my mind. The flow of the story moves along quickly but I was a little lost in the first quarter of the novel with all of the different characters. It didn't take me long to get that all sorted and I found that I really liked, or disliked each character. There isn't a ton of background information to develop some of them but I found my favorites were more raw and drew more empathy from me as the story moves along. The author paints a very good overall picture but I didn't hear distinct 'voices' for some of the characters. Overall it's a good mystery that had me changing my mind a few times about the suspect. If you liked Little Fires Everywhere then you'll like this mystery too. I would consider another book by this author because of the writing style and pace of the story.

Thank you to BookishFirst and Celadon Books for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.