The Goodbye Man

How it reads

The Goodbye Man is thriller (crime 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 several locations, in the present day, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and survival. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 417 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.