2017, Eco
382 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished August 13, 2018
Goodreads rating: 3.73 - 4054 rtings
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary rural east Texas, middle of nowhere
First line/s: "She's old enough, at thirty-six, to remember flashes of other places, other lives, but her son is only eight years old, which means he was born right here in the Blinds."
My comments: For the first half of this book I kept comparing it to City of the Lost, which I read a few months ago and very much enjoyed. I kept wondering which one had been written first. Copy cat? It appears that this one was written about a year after City of the Lost. But after the first half, comparisons were less and less relevant, the story taking its own quirky turns. Or, twists and turns, I guess I should say! I was certainly kept on the edge of my seat, and read the whole book in pretty much one big swallow.
Goodreads synopsis: A blistering thriller from the Edgar-nominated author of Shovel Ready—a speculative modern Western with elements of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, and the Coen brothers that is wickedly funny, razor-sharp, and totally engrossing
Imagine a place populated by criminals-people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who’ve been granted new identities and a second chance. Welcome to The Blinds, a dusty town in rural Texas populated by misfits who don’t know if they’ve perpetrated a crime, or just witnessed one. What’s clear to them is that if they leave, they will end up dead.
For eight years, Sheriff Calvin Cooper has kept an uneasy peace—but after a suicide and a murder in quick succession, the town’s residents revolt. Cooper has his own secrets to protect, so when his new deputy starts digging, he needs to keep one step ahead of her—and the mysterious outsiders who threaten to tear the whole place down. The more he learns, the more the hard truth is revealed: The Blinds is no sleepy hideaway. It’s simmering with violence and deception, aching heartbreak and dark betrayals.
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