I really loved this book! Excellent story with brilliant main characters. I would recommend this book.

Verdict in a nutshell: not as good as Heaberlin' s earlier books but far more intelligent than many other psychological thrillers out there.

Heaberlin reinvents the road trip novel, skewing it darkly as this time the protagonists are a grieving young woman and the dementia-stricken old man who might have killed her sister. The characterisation is nicely ambiguous, and the writing wonderful as ever. But somehow this lacked both the sharpness and the humour of the previous books. The final revelation, especially, is extreme left-field, unsatisfyingly so.

Heaberlin is my go-to for acute, clever, commercial fiction: this one didn't quite pull it all together - 3.5 stars.

I was so excited to get this book and wasn't disappointed in the least. The story is so different and engaging. You never know what's going to happen and Carl can be so creepy one moment then almost kind the next. I really didn't see the final twists coming which always makes it satisfying. 5/5