When you start a Joyce Carol Oates book you never what it's going to happen as she's a master storyteller but she's also a writer who deliver stories that makes sense only if you perservere.
This was an excellent story, a literary novel with a thriller taster. I hated the characters, hated the plot, loved the plot and found it riveting and grippig.
If you want a standard serial-killer-suburrb-etc story this is not the right one. If you want to try an excellent literary novel read it.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine