This is not what I expected but in a good way. There is simply no way to re-invent the wheel of the thriller genre and this author, refreshingly, does not try it, for example by sacrificing characters and plots just for cheap twists. Instead she takes known plot devices and combines them to something new. So there is a little bit [b:The Body|11574|The Body|Stephen King|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328182521i/11574.SY75.jpg|2334601] , there is a bit [b:The Church of Dead Girls|215605|The Church of Dead Girls|Stephen Dobyns|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1392984185i/215605.SY75.jpg|1316738], there is mystery and a touch of horror and an unreliable yet never annoyingly deceptive narrator. Very satisfying when all loose threads come together in the end and worth a re-read later.

The audiobook is a delightful hearing experience because Andrew Scott (I knew him as Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes) reads the 2016 parts in such a very natural way of speaking I have not yet experienced in this quality. (A little too good sometimes: when you turn up your device to understand the lower, muttered parts you get a shock when he suddenly gets louder.)