All Unquiet Things (review)

Neily is having a hard time getting over his ex-girlfriend Carly's murder, even though they had broken up a year previously. Like Carly's cousin Audrey, Neily can't quite believe that Audrey's dad is really guilty of the crime, despite his longstanding badboy reputation and the fact that his mother bypassed her sons to leave her massive inheritance to the girls instead. Though Audrey and Neily have never been friends (Neily blames Audrey for getting Carly involved with the wrong crowd at their very posh school, an involvement that led to their break-up and likely to Carly's death), he can't resist being drawn into Audrey's search for truth. Told from the alternating perspectives of Audrey and Neily, the story parcels out detail through flashbacks; while the complementary views are interesting, the forward motion is slow, and the narrations linger overlong on uninteresting details of the various relationships and personalities. Still, there's reliable pleasure in the unfolding of the mystery, and fans of introspective melodrama will enjoy following the clues and figuring out the mystery before the protagonists do.