Chris's Reviews > The God of the Woods

"The God of the Woods" has to be among the smartest, surprising, most literate mysteries I've read in a while. The setting is an Adirondack summer camp in the 1960s and 1970s, and not one but two children of monied New York State royalty disappear there: a boy in 1961 and a girl in 1975. Part police procedural -- and what a great cop Liz Moore has given us, a smart young woman whom the old male detectives don't take seriously -- and part character study of a wealthy family with an awful lot of skeletons in their rambling, walk-in closets, I really did stay up one until two in the morning to finish this treasure of a tale. And because I am writing this on the last day of the Olympics, let me add: wowza, does Moore stick the landing.