Victims

How it reads

Victims is mystery (police procedural, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. 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 big city setting, in the recent past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and loss and grief. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 419 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.