First review: hey this was crazy. wtf???

Second review: About the first half and thensome, was a really great murder mystery that had me tensing up in anticipation and fear for various characters. It was incredibly well-written, deeply entrancing, and easy to visualize. I saw the mountain, all the trees, the midst of heaven hiding

the dead bodies.

Superb. What happened at the end?

Why would he kill himself by fake-smoking TNT? Could people just buy TNT back then? Why was Sausage's speech so crazy? Why did we wait an extra twenty years? Why did she keep describing how close her and Madam Tim were in that closet? Who was she talking to? WTF was all of that? Who was that seamstress? Did he have kids and kill himself? Why was his wife 20 years younger than him? Why was she called Sausage, by the way, is that normal in ~1840s France?

It had me until the last part, to be honest.