The People in the Woods

I really enjoyed this book up until the end. It was a good story and a good mystery. There was a lot of urgency to it and escalating suspense. The characters were interesting and realistic and I thought the relationship between husband and wife, interesting and believable. The book lost me in the last chapters. SPOILERS I don’t believe that he would so callously murder the main villian and get away with it to such a degree AND, surely the most disappointing part was that the entire focus of the book shifted to make the relationship between “town and gown” the most important part of the book. Though that was certainly central - it didn’t seem like that should be the moral of the story AND I really don’t think that he would abandon the topic for a new paper/new research in favor of being a liaison. Again, the book really had me and then just as quickly REALLY lost me. 3 out of 5 stars. This was the February selection for the Operations Book Club (and we all had a similar opinion of it) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44334409-the-people-in-the-woods