This is one of the best books I've read in a long time--perhaps ever. Part mystery, part crime fiction, part horror--it is the perfect meld of realism and the supernatural...or is it supernatural? Malfi keeps you guessing until the very last page, and even then, not everything is resolved. 
 Which I love. I love the way he played with the reader's perceptions of reality throughout the book. It's not an easy thing to pull off, but he did pull it off, and extremely well. Is the protagonist going mad, or is she the only one who's truly sane? So many people rave about The Haunting of Hill House, but Malfi pulled off the unreliable narrator much better than Jackson did. 
 It's become a cliche, but I literally could not put this book down. Malfi now owes me two days of work, but that's fine. I don't regret a minute. 
 In case it wasn't already obvious, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.