Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to preview Grist Mill Road. Wow - this is really different. I had no idea where this book was going from one minute to the next.
The story centers around an incident that happened in 1982 - a young girl was shot by a bb gun in the eye by her young male friend, while another watched and did nothing.
Go forward to 2008, and these three people, now adults approaching age 40, go back in time and relive the incident that changed all of their lives.
I could not put this book down - it's different and kept me guessing till the end. I don't know how to put this book in a catagory, except to say that it made me have all kinds of feelings and for that alone, this book is worth reading. RECOMMEND!

Sometimes you read a book and despite the fact that it has all your plot pet peeves rolled into one, you love the book anyway. It’s a story about the dangers of secrets and friendship and what can happen when you don’t know the whole story and it’s all set in the aftermath of a tragic event (and also the recession which made for an interesting side story). It’s horribly sad, a little thrillery and wonderfully written. ARC from NetGalley.

This book definitely started off strong and was living up to its page turning hype which I expected thanks to the author’s strong reputation from his previous book.

The author has an intelligent style that spins suspense and thrills in a way that raises it above the typical fare you’d expect from a book in the Mystery genre which happens to be one of my favorites.

Yates provides characters that are full of depth and psychologically twisty as he spins a tale of friendship’s dire consequences when it takes a journey to the dark side of human behavior run amok.

Follow the clues into twists that will have you guessing around every turn the story takes and be ready for fun surprises.

This was a DNF for me and I'm really sad. I had a really hard time without the dialogue tags. I couldn't figure out what was going on in the manuscript.

I normally would not star this since this is a DNF but I had to choose a rating to submit the review.

Yates writes a smart, suspenseful novel that will appeal to literary fiction and thriller lovers alike. Patrick (Patch) and Hannah are living a idyllic life in New York city where she works as a detective and he runs a (semi) successful blog featuring his recipes and dreams of building his own restaurant. In fact his blog has become his sole endeavor since he lost his job. That and obsessing over how to get even with his former boss. Hannah remains oblivious and does not question what her husband does all day, but lives blissfully in the present not daring to dwell on the past or possible brooding thoughts...Hannah and Patch were once childhood friends, or acquaintances and a single incident from that time has the power now to destroy everything.