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A young student, Nina, goes missing after a weekend hiking and climbing at her boyfriend's family country home. From the plot synopsis I thought this would be quite a good thriller -- it was in fact an excellent and quite unique crime mystery thriller.
Very past paced, immersive and gripping from the first few pages, it has an unusual structure of very short chapters each giving the perspective, often in first person, from various people connected to Nina and the case - her parents, boyfriend, boyfriend's parents, police investigators. The structure works really well to maintain the fast pace and build tension. A shorter read with a rapidly evolving narrative taking place over a few intense days, very satisfying for lovers of good "classical" thriller/ mysteries.
one character learnt something and the rest of the characters didn't or rediscovered the same information like 5 chapters later
I didn't really notice that, or at least not as a frustration. I kind of just assume that in a crime mystery some characters do indeed know more than others, or know info earlier, and unravelling the mystery involves others "catching up".
I know what you mean on reveal. The book is unusual as a crime thriller in that most uncertainty or "twists" are near the start.
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Thanks for circling back to update, appreciated.
Yes, I was just replying on another post where someone was looking for twisty book, like Silent Patient - Nina is a bit unusual as the twisty, or the most uncertainty, is toward the start of the book. More focus on the various perspectives, vs the mystery, but indeed very satisfactory.