Too Hot? Mysteries In Freezing Temps Will Fix That

I went into this knowing absolutely nothing about it and was really surprised by how it starts in one place and just unfolds layer after layer, ending in a totally different place even thought the present takes place entirely over the course of one night inside an apartment. It’s character-focused and felt as if it was trying to explore human behavior and our ties to each other more than just shocking with twists. I’m going to only give you what you learn at the beginning in case, like me, you’d like to not know all the reveals: Aki and Hiro have been living in a Tokyo apartment but will no longer be rooming together. The apartment is empty but they’ve decided to have one final meal together. It appears each one believes the other is responsible for a man’s death and they have a lot to talk about… Think this will particularly work for fans of indie films.

(TW discussions of suicide, including hypotheticals)

Ware has pretty much consistently put out a mystery/thriller a year since her debut in 2015 so if you’ve yet to read her and are looking for an author with a sizeable backlist, look her up. This time we have the trope “something bad happened in Uni and it’s about to fck up everyone who was involved’s life in the present.” Six best friends at Oxford went from having a great college experience to one of them being murdered. Ten years later the convicted murderer has died in prison, but rather than bringing any kind of closure, it’s brought a reporter asking questions, because there is evidence the convicted was innocent. If so, that means one of the original six friends would be the murderer…