Home Is Where the Bodies Are

How it reads

Home Is Where the Bodies Are is thriller (domestic mystery thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a suburban setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, loss and grief and secrets. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is dark — no rescue, no neat bow. At 256 pages it's a quick read. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.