Entertaining read, the audiobook was well done. Not quite as good as the first book I read by this author, but a decent book.
We alternate between three points of view: Bill, a recently widowed man with a young daughter Sally. He has lost his job and needs to take in a lodger to make ends meet. That lodger is Karla, a university student who wants to become a judge. To earn money she is working as a cleaner for a wealthy couple, and the wife is ill and housebound. Jennica is young and just starting to date an older man.
At the beginning of the book, we know that two people are discovered dead in a home. Which of the players in the story are dead? Police interviews fill in the blanks as the story unfolds.
Overall I thought this was a well told story. I was curious about what was going to happen and I liked the way the mystery played out. What I didn't love was Bill's character. There was nothing I liked about him at all. I felt sorry for him at first, but as more is revealed about his character and actions, the more I disliked him. Then in the end he just turns into this simpering whiny wimp. I did like Karla and I was neutral about Jennica. There was some sort of backstory with her and Bill's dead wife Miranda, but if it was ever really explored I must have missed it because despite a bunch of accusations flying, that storyline seemed to go nowhere.
Like I said, this is a fine read, but in the end it was pretty predictable and really didn't need almost 400 pages to tell the story. The audiobook did help me to enjoy it more, because it's narrated by multiple narrators and it made me more invested in the tale. I will definitely read more books by this author in the future because I do think his writing is decent.
We alternate between three points of view: Bill, a recently widowed man with a young daughter Sally. He has lost his job and needs to take in a lodger to make ends meet. That lodger is Karla, a university student who wants to become a judge. To earn money she is working as a cleaner for a wealthy couple, and the wife is ill and housebound. Jennica is young and just starting to date an older man.
At the beginning of the book, we know that two people are discovered dead in a home. Which of the players in the story are dead? Police interviews fill in the blanks as the story unfolds.
Overall I thought this was a well told story. I was curious about what was going to happen and I liked the way the mystery played out. What I didn't love was Bill's character. There was nothing I liked about him at all. I felt sorry for him at first, but as more is revealed about his character and actions, the more I disliked him. Then in the end he just turns into this simpering whiny wimp. I did like Karla and I was neutral about Jennica. There was some sort of backstory with her and Bill's dead wife Miranda, but if it was ever really explored I must have missed it because despite a bunch of accusations flying, that storyline seemed to go nowhere.
Like I said, this is a fine read, but in the end it was pretty predictable and really didn't need almost 400 pages to tell the story. The audiobook did help me to enjoy it more, because it's narrated by multiple narrators and it made me more invested in the tale. I will definitely read more books by this author in the future because I do think his writing is decent.