FUCK THIS BOOK. WHY! WHY! WHY! THIS IS SO DEPRESSING! I have two more exams to take, why you gotta fuck with my mind! 
 Okay, calming down, breath, breath, breath. So I can write a proper review for this book 
 The Pros: 
 - Very good storyline about a girl who is found raped and murder in the wood, the same wood which the main protagonist, our detective, had lost two friends there and cannot remember what had happened. 
 - Very good characters : I swear, this book is a mastery in characterization - every single person is unique in the story: we got the depressing, fuck-up childhood, cynical protagonist (Rob Ryan) and his equally strong-willed, sarcastic but also contains a hidden-dark-past partner (Cassie Maddox). 
 - Other equally fucked up characters include the families of the victims: a strung-up dad who might have or not have something to do with the case, a pushover wife who seems strangely subdued by the tragedy, a beautiful but contains something more daughter Rosalind, and a mentally disabled younger sister Jessica whose strange silence made the family seemed more ominous. 
 - A very good mystery : which left me quite befuddled to as who is the killer. I would have rated this book five stars, but I actually managed to figure out the identity of the killer 3/4 way in. 
 - Has some philosophical messages : This book also highly appeal to me because it is very cynical in tone and theme. Weaving between the murder is commentary on jobs, law, human psychology, money, and Irish politics, which are all very engaging. 
 Now onto the cons, which is why I rate this book four stars: 
 - The plot drags at time : This book is roughly 500 hundred pages in my edition. The story can feel drag for those who want only a good, cozy, Agatha Christie mystery. Trust me, this book is not just a psychological thriller suspense, but also one on characterization and mood setting. That's why it's quite long, but sometimes, I just want to skip a few pages to where we find the killer already! 
 - No sense of poetic justice : If you are seeking for a feel-good book, one that is like "Yay, we got the killer! Finally, got ya bastard!" , then this is NOT the book for you. There was no sense of victory or greatness at the end. It was even more fucked up and depressing. So yeah, also a reason why I rate this book four stars because I was so looking forward to this moment - to catch the bastard in the ending. But it did not happen as I initially thought. It was too fucked up. 
 - (view spoiler)[ Also we never got to find out what happened in the wood. (hide spoiler)]