This book and I just did *not* vibe, and that's a shame because I had high hopes. I could not get into the writing style - the 'after' chapters were clearly written with a stylistic choice in mind, compared to the 'before' chapters, and I just could not get past the stilted nature of the writing. The story was good, I thought the plot was something fresh and new (as opposed to, say, an unreliable middle-aged woman who drinks too much and supposedly sees a murder - sound familiar?), but so much of the writing felt like filler and I think, had this book been maybe 100 pages shorter, the same story could've been told in a more succinct manner. For a debut, I will say that it's promising, and the author does twists the right way so I would be interested in reading more of his work, but for now I have to say that this was very middle of the road and probably won't occupy space in my memory for much longer.