This book like all the thrillers contains some plottwists. Now. One of them to be suprising leens on the society's bias towards poor people and crime. If you don't automatically assume poor person is doing the crime you will not be suprised. Another plot twist or rather two banded together are based on the nurture vs. nature dialog. The dialog that is so easily used to look down upon adoptees. If you are not comfortable with that ( and I am not) this book will annoy you to no end. In short even though this book stars two gay men ( to be honest the most represented LGBTQ+ part in media) it is very harsh towards people in poverty, women, bisexuals ( yep cheating bisexual trope here we go) and finally children that had misfortune of having partents that were addicts. Also main character with his snobbery and good looks sounds like terrible self-insert nobody asked for.

Like many thrillers nowadays, the premise and initial plot is good, but is tarnished somewhat by the author’s apparent need to fit in as many plot twists as possible into the final few chapters.

It’s not an unenjoyable book, but I found a lot of the character’s motivations flimsy at best, not to mention the seemingly random insertion of a character’s history of violent thoughts in the final chapters in order to give them a motive for the murder the book is based around.