Denny Voss needs to account for how he has ended up at the centre of a murder investigation.
Holly Kennedy's premise makes the surrounding community's judgements part of the mystery. The interest is in the distance between a person and the version of him others accept. Choose this for crime-inflected fiction that asks readers to examine their own assumptions about who appears credible and who is easily dismissed.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
