Status Updates From False Witness: A Novel

O-kaay! That one ranks very high, on my list of “plot twists I did not see coming!”.

I like it. It's very early-1980s police-procedural - clearly from the same era as something like Ice by Ed McBain, but more in the Scott Turow style - but I love Lynne, our lead character. Once I discovered the specific political backdrop, I was a bit leery - I often read to escape world news - but I find I've settled in, and the book has a weird timeliness...on at least two counts...

I think this is going to be one of the most memorable, and unsettling, reads of my year. Which is saying something, after I just read Suffer the Children!

This is gonna be an emotional read, at times - synopsis says so. I just did a brutal Horror novel off my Fall (and slightly before) reading list - Horror and Creepy Mysteries - and this looks like it might be the Crime & Mystery equivalent, in terms of having my nerves wracked up. We’ll see. The Investigation, by Uhnak, was pretty good.