While indulging in my guilty pleasure perusing of grocery store paperback book rack, I saw that Shari Lapena had blurbed this novel, and having discovered my love for Shari Lapena's writing when, a few weeks ago, I'd purchased on a whim my first grocery store paperback in more than a decade, I trusted that this should be good.

Look, let's face it, I have an addiction to paperback thrillers. And I'm okay with that.

This was, indeed, thrilling and well done, and I was surprised more than once --- which is surprising. I could do without the word "clamber" --- which, like thrum before it, seems required in every single novel at least once nowadays, but, that's a tiny cavil for a book that reads so fast, nice concise chapters, it moves like crazy and the characters are well defined and easy to differentiate.

I give it a three stars verging on four.