A book I don't recommend. "You should have known" by Jean Hanff Korelitz. *Spoilers***
The protagonist, Grace Sachs, is a psychological counselor living in Manhattan. Her husband Jonathan is a pediatric oncologist. She has written a book which is about to be published about how women tend to overlook red flags they see in men.
The mother of a boy who is attending Grace’s son’s private school is brutally murdered and Grace’s husband goes AWOL at the same time. The husband was the murderer. I have to say one reason I kept reading the book with I just wanted to find out what happened to the sorry husband. It turns out the cops tracked him down in Brazil.
So… What was wrong with it? Her husband’s behavior, which she had no clue about, was just over the top. Now, I know that BTK killer’s didn’t have a clue about him, but one would think a therapist would have more sense. I know, sometimes therapists desperately need therapy themselves. But it was a stretch to think she hadn’t picked up anything.
And so many times in the book, somebody would say they had to tell another person something important or wanted to ask them something important, and they just dilly-dally around, and I’m like, get to the point!
I guess for one thing I am very accustomed to reading mysteries. And this wasn’t a conventional mystery. But it seems to me it was slow moving and I wish there had been more action in the book.