A Woman Underground

Cameron Winter Mystery #4

by Andrew Klavan

Ex-spy, English professor, and sleuth Cameron Winter finds his past and present colliding as he tracks his first love in the newest entry in the USA Today bestselling series.


Cameron Winter can’t stop thinking about the first girl he ever loved, Charlotte. His unresolved feelings for her have prevented him from truly moving forward with anyone new even all of these decades later. In an effort to distract himself—and his therapist—from his romantic struggles, Cameron instead begins to recount a story from his time as a CIA operative when he was sent on a mission to find a missing colleague last seen at the villa of a notorious Turkish sex trafficker. It has been years since he traveled the world for the government, but he is still troubled by this particular case. Now working as an English professor, Winter seeks a quiet life—except when his “strange habit of mind,” his penchant for sleuthing, leads him to investigate crimes whose complexity excites his curiosity.



When a mysterious visitor turns Winter’s attention to a book that appears to detail what happened to Charlotte he realizes he might be able to find and save her. The dark tale, filled with White Nationalist rhetoric, disturbing characters, and cold-blooded murder has him worried for her life. But how much of this story is true? Why does someone want him to investigate? And what is it about this current investigation that has him thinking about that missing spy those many years ago? In his most personal case yet, Winter must delve deep into his past to confront a dangerous threat lurking in his present.



Like previous entries featuring this “complex and determined” series character (BookReporter), A Woman Underground harnesses multiple Edgar Award-winning author Andrew Klavan’s crime writing expertise to explore some of the biggest issues facing us today. The result is a poignant page turner with an intricate plot, shot through with high stakes action and unflinching humanity.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Audiobook, Crime, Novels, Mystery Thriller

281 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 14, 2024

About the author

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Reviews

[Anita's Book List · Rating 4 out of 5]

Readers should be aware. This text contains explicit content, trafficking, violence, and themes of racism and supremacy. The middle of this book is messy and full of difficult subjects to read. At points, I wanted to put this book down and DNF it. I can’t stomach explicit content or topics like human trafficking. I only completed this novel so I could leave a review.

Cameron Winter, the detective operative. He wants to save Charlotte, his childhood love interest. Charlotte seems to cry for help. A gullible romantic, Winter, sets off into the wind like Don Quixote. His therapist, Margaret, is his Sancho Panza. She warns him that everything isn’t what it seems, and what do you know? She’s right. Winter must go on a journey of self-discovery. He must seek forgiveness for his past. He must fight evil racists and extremists. Maybe, he should have just called Gwendolyn. She was a nice woman he dated five months ago.

What I like the most about this story is the characters’ archetypes. I liked how well they tied into the story’s themes, the character arcs, and the plot.

My biggest criticism of the story was that the middle felt messy, and I wanted to put the book down. But I'm glad I didn't. My favorite part of the novel was the ending. It gave a satisfactory conclusion and explained the messy middle. It all comes together well in the end.

3.5 Stars Rounded up to 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I would have given this a higher rating, but I didn’t like the way the story mentioned Jesus’s name.

Thank you to Netgalley and Penzler Publishers | Mysterious Press for the advance copy of this novel. I was given this ebook in exchange for an honest review. I also won a physical advance copy on a giveaway hosted by Mysterious Press on X.

#AWomanUnderground #NetGalley

[Henry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent installment in Klavan's Cameron Winter series. This is not your usual mystery. The plot and characters are complex, yet it is totally engrossing and hard to put down. Klavan is a superlative writer and an excellent observer of human nature with all of its virtues and foibles. Highly recommended.

[Derek McHenry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have tremendous respect and affection for the author. I've read his autobiography, non-fiction, and the three prior books in this series. I have been trying for the past two years to write my own fiction novel, so I have been studying the major elements of the writing craft. Looking at it from the perspective of being a fan of mystery stories, I enjoyed it and saw it as a solid entry in that genre. Looking at it from a (would-be) writer's perspective, I saw a few easily forgivable weaknesses, but still have great respect for the author's skills in telling a good story with interesting events and characters, good emotional scenes painted, a good main character arc, visual descriptions, fun action scenes, and a satisfying resolution. As a Christian, I loved how the story reflected the reality of sin, forgiveness, being self-deluded by deeply held false beliefs, the value of women, wives, mothers, and marriage; and the metanarrative that the one true God is writing the story of our lives in this reality. My wife and I are huge fans of the author and look forward to reading the rest of the series as soon as each new book comes out.

[Reagan Young · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was poised to give a scathing review to this book after about 30% into it. Already crafting my review in my head with every new page I read.

YET! Hoorah for plot twists and me finally coming to my senses. I put the book down, and asked myself why I was disliking this book. Come to find out I did not like it because it was real. There is adultery, lies, murder, scandals, etc. The detail and build up to these events shows the stinky nature of humans, especially when we are led by our own desires, and not the Lord’s. This book showed the drama of these scenarios in a realistic and legit way, not in a whimsical and in the clouds type way most movies and books like to paint it.

I was reading about the husband seriously considering leaving his wife and son to chase after this younger woman, and was filled with such disgust! How could he be such a boo boo man! Yet wouldn’t you know the Lord used that to remind me how crusty and disgusting sin is, and how we have all fallen short of the glory of God. Sin seems so silly when you read about it in books like this. You want to slap some rationality and sense into the characters. But then I get reminded that we are senseless and irrational often regarding sin. Thank you GOD you have given us your Spirit and word to guide us. Thank you Jesus for giving us life by your sacrifice! We don’t have to be stuck in the debilitating consequences of sin any longer!

I did not like how much detail the author went into with some scenes in the book, hinting to the 3 star review.

This is a series, with this book being the latest in the series. I could have helped myself out if I had read the other books.

There was reference to this Simone Weil quote in the book that I love: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous and boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

I don’t know anything about Simone Weil, but I like this quote a whole lot.

Also learned about the word claptrap. Means pretentious, insincere, or empty language.

[Sam Faber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely fantastic. Klavan truly is the modern heir to Chandler. He is distinguished among current thriller writers, embedding at once more meaning, honesty, and action into his novels than anyone else of whom I’m aware. A Woman Underground is the best yet of a fantastic series and I can’t wait to see where it goes from here. Truly a very, very good work of fiction.

[iSamwise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very sad but very good.

I never thought I’d read a story where one of the bad guys writes a N@zi smut novel.

[Sam Bachert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read! I couldn’t put it down, my favorite of the series so far!

[Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Cameron Winter series has been good reading, but this book is particularly good. The density of layers in the stories, the events and the characters read like early 20th century American classic literature. Klavan also interjects a sprinkling of literary analysis while still leaving the reader to discern the political commentary.

[Nick Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received for Christmas and blew through it (like all Klavan’s books in the Cameron Winter series)

Not sure if it’s my favourite, since it deals with some aspects of its main character that are
a) sometimes a little close to home
b) very dark and weighty

However, the ending of this book is close to perfect. It feels like a great weight is lifted for both the main character and reader as you finish. I look forward to more in this series, where Winter can face this next chapter of his life slightly less burdened by his past.

[Joann · Rating 4 out of 5]

My mother would have loved this book! As an avid reader of mysteries, the twists and turns in this plot would have fascinated her totally. I enjoyed the book, but the complexities of the characters were difficult to keep straight in my mind. I liked the previous Cameron Winter book more.

[Hunter Maggert · Rating 5 out of 5]

He did it again gosh darn it

[Amanda Geaney]

Not a clean read.

[Mike Flinn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as great as the last installment in this series, but as with every Klavan novel, it’s an extremely interesting and worthwhile read.

Klavan’s calling card with these novels is his understanding of human nature. As he recently said in one of his podcast episodes, he is an artist. And as an artist he perceives people. The way people act, why people act, and what people do when facing different situations. Klavan brings his understanding of human nature to each and every Cameron Winter novel, and this one is not different.

The story may not be as exciting as the last one, but if you like the series then absolutely pick this up

[Child960801 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've recently listened to several episodes of Klavan's podcast, which told me this book was out, though I had already read the other Cameron Winter books. I found that this one gave me a lot of cognitive dissonance. It feels like Klavan is saying things that are true, but things that you aren't supposed to talk about in that way or acknowledge in that way and that is where the dissonance comes from. This book also has a lot in it about mental health, which is a trigger subject for me, but I feel like it was handled well.

Cameron finds a book that makes him think about his first love, Charlotte, and starts him on a quest to find out what happened to her.

[your mom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slaps!!

[Michael Cunningham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Satisfying ending to the trilogy! Hard to put down!

[Dominic Morlino · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed on this one. On the one hand, it was a very well constructed plot, and tremendously exciting throughout. I really liked that the mystery that needed solving wasn’t an external event but the mystery of Winter’s own past and psyche. And I love how the plot threads that were built up in the first book are paid off here.

On the other hand, several aspects of the plot were very confusing to me, which pulled me out of the book. And the final meeting and plot resolution, because it’s meant to be so emotionally unfulfilling, was in fact emotionally unfulfilling.

Still excited to read the new one, and I’m happy that I’m now all caught up. Christmas present please!

[Max Skidmore · Rating 3 out of 5]

More like 3 1/2. Some of the writing is quite good. This was a book within a book, a name within a name (Miranda and Mirand) and therapy within therapy. This was book 4 in the series and I plan to read book 1.

[Amelia Quinlen]

I sped through these books (speedy for me, at least) - really good and entertaining mystery/thriller/psychological thriller books, and I’m excited for the 5th one that’s about to come out!

[Ray Palen · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 1/2 Stars

Author Andrew Klavan has been so busy with his hugely popular podcast The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire that it is a wonder he still has time to write. Thankfully, he found the time to pen another novel in his terrific series featuring former spy turned English professor Cameron Winter and this latest entry is entitled A WOMAN UNDERGROUND.

Cameron Winter is quite the unique protagonist. He is haunted, in some ways broken, and admittedly empty inside. He will be the first to confess, as he does to his Therapist Margaret Whitaker, that the reason for the emptiness is the fact that his soul was given to the first and only woman he really loved. This woman named Charlotte is probably not aware of the long-term damage done to her childhood friend Cam, but he knows in his heart that his lifelong mission is to find her.

It is there where this complex, story-within-a-story, novel takes us and the mystery lies in watching Winter use all his spy game and even literary skills to find his long lost love. Things open with a story featuring a young woman named Miranda in a farmhouse looking out the window as two figures, one her abusive husband Theo and the other his larger companion named Moran. They venture through the fields into the woods armed with guns. While in the woods, Miranda hears two shots and then waits and watches as only Moran ventures back out.

This curious story is followed up by a journey into Winter’s past as a spy when he is approached on a walk along the Potomac in D.C. by his handler known simply as The Recruiter. The Recruiter has a mission for Winter which will send him to Turkey to attempt the rescue of a colleague named Jerry who was last seen in the company of a notorious Turkish sex trafficker.

Readers might wonder what these two tales have to do with the present action of the story at hand and you would be right. The first story featuring Miranda and the two men was a passage from a subversive underground novel Treachery In the Night where the character of Miranda was based on his beloved Charlotte and Theo her real-life husband Eddie. The trip down memory lane that Winter takes is an anecdote that he tells his therapist Margaret as an ice-breaker, a way of slowly getting into what was really on his mind. Thankfully, Klavan reveals more of both tales for us as they hold answers to the mission Winter has before him.

The only way that Winter was able to recall the title of the subversive novel is when he watches security footage of the woman Charlotte outside his campus residence and she was holding that book under her arm. He had been feeling like a character described by a poem of William Blake’s that he had currently been teaching at school up until the moment when he saw her. Using his literary connections, he finds a local bookstore owner that he knows can help him understand and unravel what is happening in this rare book and where the key might lie to locate Charlotte.

It starts with the bookseller taking Winter to the home of the novel’s author, a woman using the pen name of Ivy Swansag. When he gets to her home, he finds that it resembles the very same farmhouse she wrote about in the novel. This tells Winter that Charlotte/Miranda was there when the fictional action he read about described the very real acts that occurred. Regrettably, he also finds the author murdered and home ransacked. It appears that the person responsible was once known as the Phantom of the Zones and fictionally represented as Moran. This is a story about White Nationalists and those from European backgrounds that opposed them, sometimes to tragic endings.

The journey that Winter goes on to find Charlotte and fulfill what he believes is his own destiny is fraught with suspense and danger --- the least of which is the fact that she may other plans for her old friend. A WOMAN UNDERGROUND reads like classic noir blended with literary fiction and the end result is a smart and savvy novel that constantly surprises.

Reviewed by Ray Palen for Book Reporter

[Dave Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Cameron Winter Mystery, by Andrew Klavan (there are no e's in Klavan). Fun to read and some really good cultural things that Cameron had to wade through as he tried to solve not only his personal issues, but the issues of murder, violence and deception. Enjoy.

[Mandi Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

“A Woman Underground “ is Andrew Klavan’s 4th installment in his Cameron Winter mystery books. This is not your average high-octane suspense series. What makes Klavan’s thrillers a thick cut above all others in this genre is he writes for thinkers—readers who appreciate references to great literature, art, and epic Biblical themes of good, evil, sin and redemption. Plus, Klavan cleverly eludes to political events and public figures with wry wit and sly references that discerning readers will find satisfying upon recognition. For example, in “A Woman Underground”, the reader gets a visceral look at a particular west coast city crippled in the last decade by reoccurring Leftwing riots—Klavan doesn’t have to mention the town’s name but it is evident to those in the know. Can you guess who the real life “fictional” reporter is that Winters interviews in book? When Winters has to rescue a fellow spy from an international sex trafficker, there is a wall filled with photos of our country’s leaders and celebrities doing unspeakable things. Readers can guess where those pictures probably came from without Klavan having to utter a single word about the source. Somehow Klavan shows that truth is stranger than fiction, while the reader is busily dissecting multiple plot lines in this fast-paced book. Klavan is a master at telling stories within stories, and this newest Cameron Winter book does not disappoint.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the fourth book in the man with a “strange habit of mind” series.
I gave it the following SCORE:
Setting: Current day, multiple locations, with flashbacks
Characters: Cameron Winter, former CIA operative, current poetry professor, and all-around talented investigator, Charlotte, his enigmatic first love, and his intuitive psychiatrist, along with an exhaustive series of bad guys, traitors, and people you would not want to meet on the streets.
Overview: Winter’s quest is to find the elusive and disturbing Charlotte, following remote clues and intriguing characters, including people from his past and those with unforeseen surprises.
Recommendation: I rate this book 3 stars, almost 4
Extras: This book has several threads in different time periods related to Winter’s talents and it becomes somewhat difficult to follow if read in multiple sittings. The previous books in the series highlighted Cameron’s “strange habit” more prominently and made those stories more interesting.
Thanx to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers/Mysterious Press for the opportunity to provide this candid review.

[Jacob DeVries · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very uneven entry in the Cameron Winter series and probably the weakest book in the series so far. The novel revolves around a mystery concerning the "real life" inspiration for a self-published novel that in this universe is supposedly big in the online white supremacist community. The problem is that the portions of the novel we see in the book read more like a soap opera for women than anything that would be likely to inspire the devotion of terminally online male fanatics. The core conceit of the book was, therefore, fairly unbelievable on its face, which constantly pulled me out of the story. The book ends fairly abruptly and anti-climactically with little resolution, which added to my dissatisfaction.

This is not to say it wasn't an enjoyable read. Klavan is a talented writer who knows how to turn a phrase, and his prose, characterization, and themes are top-notch. Three stars.

[Drw · Rating 2 out of 5]

A distinctly odd book. Depression mixed with mid-life crisis topped with conspiracy radicals hiding from the man thrown into murder all written in a very flowery, overly-long English PhD sort of tone and vocabulary. And don't forget the oddest calls to personal repentance that I've ever come across.

I read a previous book by this author in this series and quite enjoyed it. So this both surprised and disappointed me. I finally began to wonder what quantities of drugs - either legit or not - where involved in the writing of this morass.

[Tina Roos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh. Not as good as the first three books in the Cameron Winter series. I found Winter’s character rather annoying this time around. Actually, all of the characters were kind of annoying, but there was enough suspense to keep me interested until the end, so 3 stars. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

[Sandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was bad enough to make me bid sayonara to the series.
Lame, nonsensical story, shallow characters and unnecessary casual cruelty (Gerald Dinh character especially since it's so obvious who he's describing).

[Carole Barker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haunted by the man he was and struggling to move forward

Cameron Winter is an unusual man. Currently an associate professor of English literature at a mid-level university, he was once a cold-blooded and highly efficient operative for a government agency known as the Division which specialized in eliminating those targeted by people in power through the manipulation of others. The son of wealthy but distant parents, he experienced little warmth or affection except from his nanny and her family, especially from his nanny’s niece Charlotte who would become his first love. Cameron has a talent which he calls a “strange habit of mind”, a sort of fugue state in which he is able to sort through different aspects of a puzzling situation in order to reach its solution, and of late has called upon that to solve a few mysteries. But he is currently in a deep depression, and even the therapist whom he has been seeing to help him process the sins of his past to allow him to move forward and lead a normal life is concerned. He is fixated on the missing Charlotte and believes that she has recently attempted to contact him, yet insists on regaling his therapist instead with a chapter from his previous line of work when he was sent to find a missing fellow operative who he discovered had had a crisis of faith and didn’t want to be found. Along the way Cameron discovers a right wing novel which he believes is a fictionalized version of Charlotte’s life in recent years, caught within an underground group and brutalized by her partner all while being pursued by another man. Meanwhile, a professor on campus who together with his wife has befriended Cameron confesses that he is having an affair with a young student with whom he has fallen in love and looks to Cameron for advise and absolution (a role for which he is in no mood). These various stories have elements in common like desire and obsession,,,,are they all really just variations on a single tale, in each of which Cameron has a role to play? Should Cameron try to find Charlotte and settle that period of his life once and for all, and if he does can he survive the encounter?
A Woman Underground is the fourth Cameron Winter mystery, and like the previous three offers the reader a highly complex protagonist in the troubled Cameron Winter. Along the way there are views offered of the strange world that is academia today, in which Cameron finds himself viewed as an oddity for his unfashionably traditional views on things, and a decidedly dim view of the world of geopolitics. The usually highly competent Cameron is off his game this time around and his skills a bit off their customary standards, which could be a sign that his mental state is worsening or that he is on the cusp of a breakthrough. As he tries to sort fact from fiction in the novel which has become his roadmap to Charlotte and works through the dark feelings left behind from his attempted rescue of his fellow operative, he has little energy left to sympathize with his colleague’s midlife crisis even as the object of that colleague’s obsession turns her charms on Cameron. Multiple puzzles needing solutions, yet the reader will see only a few quick glimpses of Cameron’s famed deductive process (my one complaint with this outing). All in all, a solid mystery with plenty of continuing character development…not my favorite in the series, but well worth the read. If you’re a fan of the earlier books, you should definitely read this installment; if you haven’t, but enjoy authors like John Gilstrap, Lee Child or Thomas Harris, then I recommend you give this book and the rest of the series a try. My thanks to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers/Mysterious Press for allowing me early access to this combination of literary mystery and psychological exploration.

[Bookreporter.com Mystery & Thriller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Andrew Klavan has been so busy with his popular podcast “The Andrew Klavan Show” that it is a wonder he still has time to write. Thankfully, he has penned A WOMAN UNDERGROUND, the latest installment in his terrific series featuring former spy turned English professor Cameron Winter.

Winter is quite the unique protagonist. He is haunted, in some ways broken and admittedly empty inside. He will be the first to confess, as he does to his therapist, Margaret Whitaker, that his soul was given to the first and only woman he really loved. Charlotte is probably not aware of the long-term damage done to her childhood friend, but he knows in his heart that his lifelong mission is to find her. He will use all of his spy game tactics and even literary skills to do so.

The book opens with a young woman named Miranda in a farmhouse looking out the window at her abusive husband, Theo, and his larger companion, Moran. They venture through the fields into the woods armed with guns. Miranda hears two shots and then waits as only Moran emerges.

This curious story is followed by a journey into Winter’s past as a spy when he is approached on a walk along the Potomac by his handler, the Recruiter. He has a mission for Winter that will send him to Turkey in an attempt to rescue Jerry Collins, a colleague who was last seen in the company of a notorious Turkish sex trafficker.

Readers might wonder what these two tales have to do with the novel’s present action. The story involving Miranda and the two men is a passage from a subversive underground novel, Treachery in the Night. Miranda is based on his beloved Charlotte, and Theo is her real-life husband, Eddie. The trip down memory lane taken by Winter is an anecdote that he tells his therapist as an icebreaker, a way of slowly getting into what is really on his mind. Thankfully, Klavan reveals more of both narratives as they hold answers to the mission that Winter has before him.

The only way that Winter is able to recall the title of that book is when he watches security footage of Charlotte outside his campus residence, and she is holding a copy of Treachery in the Night under her arm. He had been feeling like a character described by a William Blake poem that he had been teaching at school up until the moment he saw her. Using his literary connections, he finds a local bookstore owner he knows who can help him understand and unravel what is happening in this rare book and where the key might lie in locating Charlotte.

It starts with the bookseller taking Winter to the home of the book’s author, who uses the pen name “Ivy Swansag.” Winter finds that her place resembles the very same farmhouse she wrote about in the novel. This tells Winter that Charlotte/Miranda was there when the fictional action he read about described the very real acts that occurred. Regrettably, he also finds the author murdered and her home ransacked. It appears that the person responsible was once known as “The Phantom of the Zones” and fictionally represented as Moran. This is a story about white nationalists and those from European backgrounds who opposed them, sometimes to tragic endings.

The journey that Winter goes on to find Charlotte and fulfill what he believes is his own destiny is fraught with suspense and danger --- the least of which is that she may have other plans for him. A WOMAN UNDERGROUND reads like classic noir blended with literary fiction. The end result is a smart and savvy novel that constantly surprises.

Reviewed by Ray Palen

[Lori L (She Treads Softly) · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Woman Underground by Andrew Klavan is an exceptional, very highly recommended investigative mystery and the fourth novel featuring college professor and ex-spy Cameron Winter. This features an intricate and sophisticated plot where, for Winter, the past and present are at the forefront. Don't miss this one!

Cameron Winter is sharing with therapist Margaret Whitaker the troubling memories of his mission with the Division to track down Jerry Collins, a missing operative investigating a Turkish sex trafficker while avoiding discussing Gwendolyn Lord. He is also recalling memories of his first childhood love, Charlotte Shaefer, when he smells her perfume outside his apartment door and sees her visiting him on the security camera. Winter begins to track her down from clues on the camera shot of her, which leads him to a novel, Treachery in the Night, which Winter believes may be telling her story. Adding even more complexity, colleague Roger Sexton believes he loves a student, Barbara Finley, and confides to Winter he plans to leave his wife and child for her.

Winter has what he calls "a strange habit of mind." He is able to look at a situation from all angles, deduce how the complicated clues fit together, and reach a clear understanding of what actually happened. As a previously a trained operative, his extra-special understanding of human nature has been developed over time. It is a sheer pleasure in following along.

All of the various narrative in the plot are complicated, intense, compelling, and complex. A Woman Underground held my complete, rapt attention throughout. The tension increases with each page, each new development as Winter investigates and tells his story from the past mission.

Winter is a fully realized, well-developed character who will garner sympathy and compassion from readers. He is intelligent and tenacious while investigating and following what he senses is really going on. It is clear that Winter is working through the demons from his past while using his abilities to solve a current mystery. As he tells Margaret, "In my mind, it’s all one story."

Even though it is the fourth book in a series, A Woman Underground can be read as a stand-alone novel. The Cameron Winter series consists of When Christmas Comes, A Strange Habit of Mind, The House of Love and Death and A Woman Underground.

A Woman Underground is an absolutely riveting, un-put-downable mystery. Thanks to Mysterious Press for providing me with an advance reader's copy via NetGalley. My review is voluntary and expresses my honest opinion.
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