After a certain point, I couldn’t stop reading because I was afraid a twist I did not want to happen was coming, and I had to find out. Thankfully, it didn’t happen, so I can confidently recommend this book as a page-turning mystery with characters so likable that after awhile I cared far more about their well-being than whodunnit.

If I have a gripe, it’s that I wish books with autistic protagonists would just be up front about that instead of calling them different or special or refreshing or any of the other adjectives autistic people get assigned (when we’re not getting assigned much more negative ones). Are autistic characters only marketable when it’s not explicit? Are authors/publishers afraid of doing autistic representation wrong, so they want plausible deniability? Autistic people can tell when you’re writing one of us, so just say that’s what you’re doing! I, for one, am more likely to pick up a book when I know I’ll probably relate to the protagonist, and I get annoyed when I have to figure out if a book is hinting at autistic rep based on vague jacket copy about people who are picky, special, different, orderly, etc.