This book begins with a shocking police report and then backtracks to tell the stories of several people in the town: a cleaner, a father-daughter pair, and a young woman looking for love. The author sets an ominous tone, letting us see inside each character's struggles and the ways their apparently simple lives actually contain sadness and a lot of history. Short chapters and engaging scenes of dialogue suggest this fast-paced mystery will get a lot more tangled before anything is resolved...