I picked this book up (well, downloaded it) thinking it'd be a bucket of popcorn. Well, it offers those pleasures and satisfactions, and much more. Well-written, provocative, many-layered. I loved the narrative device, the unknowns in Schroder's past, and the destabilizing, distorting power of secrets and lies that shape this story. This is a powerful, substantial novel. Comparisons to Gone Girl are inevitable; I think Schroder's the stronger book.