His and Hers

A woman is found dead in Blackdown, and the two people closest to the case both have reasons to keep quiet about what they know. Alice Feeney builds the story from alternating voices that rarely agree on the same facts. Anna Andrews reports the news and would rather not be assigned to this village at all. DCI Jack Harper leads the investigation until the questions start pointing back at him. Their chapters run side by side, each one shading the other, so every account has to be weighed against the next. The pacing stays tight, the chapters are short, and the revelations arrive in a sequence designed to make earlier pages look different in hindsight. Reasons readers return to it: • Two unreliable narrators, an ex-husband and ex-wife, telling the same events differently • A village setting where old history and present crime are hard to separate • Short chapters that keep the suspense moving at a fast clip • A final stretch that reframes a good deal of what came before Suited to readers of domestic suspense and crime fiction who like their plots layered and their narrators suspect. Available in English at Boipoka.