In the Woods

I'm surprised that so many people I know gave this book such a high rating.

For me, the foreshadowing was so thick it left nothing to the imagination. Near the end when the narrator is wrapping things up he says “she fooled you, too.” Not true at all. I knew exactly what had happened. Maybe because I never believed Detective Ryan. He became the unreliable narrator almost immediately with his memory full of holes and his insistence on connecting two cases that had no business being connected.

In the end, the case that was solved was the one no one really cared about. What I really wanted to know was how the blood got into the shoes!