This was my second book given to me this year for the Pajiba Cannonball Read Book Exchange. My benefactor picked two in my “to read” list off of Goodreads, and gave this one a glowing recommendation, and they were not wrong!!
This was a real page turner, I was obsessed with seeing how it all played out! Missing children, murder, detective partners with secret histories, the wood with its own secrets of present and past. At its roots the story isn’t that complex, and I wanted a bit more from the ending, but French is a talented writer and uses language so artfully that her writing rose above a standard plot. The book begins with an interesting narrator reveal, and the narrator drops hints throughout the book about how it will all play out in the end that are maddening and delicious. (Also, the cherry on top for me was the setting of Ireland. I have a good friend from there, so I just get tickled with the use of slang).
I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good mystery especially those like myself who used to have an affinity (obsession) with Law and Order.
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