A magnificently plotted novel, with fascinating characters and intricately threaded subplots. The focus is off the detectives and on to a big cast of characters related to a crime that occurred twenty years ago. A woman is murdered in a hit-and-run accident. Seemingly unrelated, we read the journal a concert violinist named Gideon, who enters therapy in order to break through a creative block. Long-repressed memories return. The story spins out from these two characters into surprising threads.

I found the book an extraordinary pleasure to read. Though the story line was compelling, I had no interest in racing through the novel. I wanted to read every clue, understand each setting, each alibi, every lie told. At the end, I was saddened by the human nature revealed here, and terribly impressed by the depth and scope of what I had just read.