Sam Hayes offers the reader a roller-coaster of emotions, making you alternate between sympathizing with the heroes, shrinking from fear, and then greedily following what’s happening.
“Carrie Kent has everything—star status, fame, money, a luxurious house. Carrie Kent has nothing. Because the body of her teenage son is found by the school gates. The boy was murdered with several knife blows. And Carrie, who is so ruthless toward the heroes of her TV show where all kinds of shocking stories are discussed, becomes the target of an investigation herself. How did it happen that her only son—such an ordinary, well-off boy—died? And such a terrible death?”