Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch is the author's second novel. I haven't read her first one, and I'm not sure if I will. Men and Dogs is a good book, but it wasn't one that just blew me away and made me an instant fan of the author and think, oh my god, let me read ALL of her books and every future book she releases because she is so good! Part of this is because the ending is not tied up in a neat little bow, and the mystery with which the protagonist is obsessed and that builds throughout the book doesn't reach any sort of concrete resolution. And I was expecting something along these lines the way the mystery was billed on the inside flap blurb and then gathers steam throughout the book. Ultimately I think the book is more about the protagonist's journey to make peace with the unanswered questions concerning the tragedy of her childhood as opposed to being about solving for once and for all the uncertainty of her father's fate with which she's be...
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