The Farm

The Farm by Tom Rob Smith              Audio Book: 9hrs. 24 mins          Paperback Book: 400 pages        

Good story, it keeps the reader off kilter all the way through to the end.   It is like you are watching something and you don’t know whether it is real or a dream.     A son is caught up in his secret gay relationship he cannot bring himself to admit to his parents who he believes to be living a good quiet life in the country only to be brought into a festering tug-of-war as to which parent he believes in an emotional conspiratorial fight to find a murderer and prove the sanity of one over the other of his parents.   It has a Hitchcock feel to it, think, “Rear Window,” or “The Rope.”   Set among the fyords in Sweden and the center of London, a sense of dread and you don’t know who to believe because  both have plausible views.   It is one of those books where the reader will be trying to work out the clues who is right?  Who is wrong?  Could things  be as either says?  Each makes an excellent case.   Good book.   I would recommend it to mystery lovers especially.       

 - Shirley J.