With a focus on criminal investigations and suspense, the author excels at depicting the struggles of human nature in the darkness and the mutual healing between two people. The prose is cool and restrained, the pacing brisk, and the story packed with foreshadowing. It gives careful attention to the logic of each case and to creating well-rounded characters. Crime forms the story’s bones, while human bonds give it its soul. Amid layers of mystery and a string of murders, it lays bare the good and evil in human nature, telling the story of two lonely souls finding each other in the abyss and becoming one another’s salvation.
