Lots to like here for me. This has a serious tone and there are multiple twists and turns. I found myself theorizing about what was happening but I was never 100% sure I had it right, which is the space I like to be in for a thriller. I was legitimately surprised more than once here.

I do feel like there was a bit too much filler. In some ways that extraneous information worked as red herrings for me because I didn’t know what was important or not, but also I didn’t care enough about the characters to want to hear so much about friends and family.

This read clarified for me that domestic thrillers aren’t my favorite, so I think I’ll avoid those in the future. But I think for a (mostly?) domestic thriller, this worked well.