![]() ![]() The setting is one of the strongest aspects of the novel. Yet, before he can leave, he finds himself helping the local police: was his friend capable of murder? Had he done it before? Aaron is all too aware of how his small town works: gossip, suspicions, petty jealousies. This opening chapter brims with a tense unease: Aaron and his father where forced to leave their hometown Kiewarra years earlier, and people have not forgotten him. The very first scene is thrilling: Aaron is at the funeral of his old best friend, Luke, who committed suicide after mercilessly killing his son and wife. ![]() Now, despite these stereotypical elements, Harper reworks this stock plot into one gripping tale. The story is one that has been done time and again: our main character returns to the small town where they are from (having left after certain traumatic events) and is forced to confront his past ghosts as well as his new ones. Harper delivers an absorbing yet somewhat ‘run-of-the-mill’ thriller. ![]()
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