A bestselling author arrives at the scene of her sister's murder, in time to catch a glimpse of the killer escaping; years later, after being homebound by trauma, she gets a glimpse of the person again on television and plots her revenge in Melanie Raabe's The Trap.
Raabe's debut novel, translated from German, has a classic unreliable narrator whose motivations and memories will leave a reader guessing throughout.
Raabe's damaged protagonist writes a thriller novel with intimate details of the crime, designed to draw the killer to her; when the suspect arrives, a cat and mouse game ensues.
I felt the book was a little overlong at 300 pages, based on a plot largely consisting of two characters circling each other in a house over a single long night. I would have trimmed out the "novel within the novel" chapters, which were just okay. to keep it speeding along.
The Trap is a solidly-plotted thriller and of interest to genre fans.
I checked this out from the Henry County-New Castle Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
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