jonn reviewed Hemlock Bay by Martin Edwards
Nothing is irrelevant, dense with clues, extremely sharp, but almost unbelievable.
5 stars
I can't stress this enough — every part of the book has a sinister undercurrent. It is the opposite of Horowitz, the opposite of Ellery Queen, it doesn't pinpoint into the single culmination of solution. Rather, it explodes with a fireworks of horror. Please read it and continuously hypothesise, if you want to solve it.
I wasn't even close, even though all the clues were there.
Almost perfect.