Strange Pictures by Uketsu

One day, a young man is told about a website from a fellow student in his paranormal club. At first, the website seems to be the mundane life of another young man and his new wife, both of them just starting out. A little over a year into the blog the blogger discovers that his wife is pregnant, elated the blog turns to discussions of the progression of her pregnancy, the prognosis is not good, the child is breach, but the blogger has home that mother and child will survive. Unfortunately, that is dashed away when, during an emergency C Section, the mother dies and his son lives. The young student is bereft for these strangers and so continues the blog but finds that there is something very wrong and very sinister happening in the bloggers life and he is determined to see the bloggers story to the end. 

This was absolutely brilliantly done, told from multiple perspectives, and from different time frames, what seems like it could only end up being a disjointed mess at the beginning is a truly horrific tale of murder I genuinely could not put this down from the minute Sasaki and Kurihara piece together the hints in the blog until the twisted tale comes full circle I was kept on my toes. Even when I already knew who the killer was, the suspense is very much alive as it feels like they is no way they will be caught. What makes this even better is Uketsu *tells* the reader who the killer is, I didn't figure it out and honestly I probably wouldn't have, to be able to keep the suspense up after a reveal like that is simply amazing. 

Unlike many other novels like this I didn't feel like that killer was especially evil either, it was more like their lack of emotions made them evil and that they consistently justified their actions to themselves by telling themselves they were doing it to protect someone else, when that was clearly not the case. The murderer was motivated from clear self-interest from beginning to end, and thats what truly made them evil. 

I highly recommend this one. It's like no thriller/mystery I have read!

As always, thanks to NetGalley and HarperVia for the eArc!