Steven is Causing Problems

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The Woman Inside just didn't resonate for me. Edvardsson does a fine job of connecting his three narrators together, but I didn't really like any of them. The story itself begins with the deaths of the wealthy Rytter couple, then alternates between the three narrators - Bill, Karla and Jennica - when their three paths begin to interesect, as well as the present, when law enforcement is trying to figure how the Rytters were killed. As the story plays out, all three have possible motives, but they just don't feel compelling enough to kill for. Karla is a bit of a pushover who's renting a room from Bill while she tries to get into law school. She's also the cleaner at the Rytter house. Bill is a sad-sack, unemployed single father. And Jennica is unknowingly having an affair with Steven Rytter while refusing to act like a grown-up instead of like the college student she's pretending to be. Karla's story is the most compelling in addition to her interactions with other primary characters, she also struggles with what her level of commitment should be to drug addicted mother. She feels like a bad person for not being there for her mother, but also knows that she'll have no life of her own if she stays. I feel like backstory gets left out in regards to Miranda, Bill's significant other, and a former good friend of Jennica. It feels like an event that happened years ago forms a whole dynamic between Bill and Jennica but the reader only sees each one's very biased perspective on the situation. I also struggled some with how Edvardsson made everything work. It just felt like law enforcement investigating the situation was incompetent and could have figured how things happened but didn't really have anything throughout the whole story. And at the same time throughout the book they interview characters that the readers know have a connection to the murders, but that the police wouldn't seem to have a natural reason to speak to.