I received a free copy from NetGalley. What wrongs would you right if you knew you didn't have long to live and what would knowing you were dying do to your moral compass?

Kenny Drummond gets the news no one expects to hear. He has stage four terminal brain cancer and has only weeks to live without treatment, maybe a few months with horrific treatments. Kenny opts to not do treatment and sets about putting his life in order. He is single with no children. His marriage had dissolved after a stillborn baby but he is still good friends with his ex-wife. He lives in a remote cottage where he makes a living painting portraits. He has no close friends or any relatives.
As he prepares, he decides this is the time to make amends to anyone he wronged. He can think of only a few and most insist his sins were minor and nothing to worry about. But then there is Callie Barton. Back when he was a young child, shunned at school because of his strange father and motherless home, only Callie had treated him kindly. He never told her how much that meant and decides this is the time.

He goes to his one friend, an ex-cop and asks her to help him locate Callie. What she turns up instead is troubling. Callie disappeared several years before and has never been found. Her husband, Jonathan Reese, was the main suspect. Kenny determines to find out what happened to Callie and get her justice.

In order to do this, he kidnaps Jonathan and takes him to his cottage. He imprisons him there, telling him that he will let him go when he tells him what happened to Callie. Jonathan is adamant that he had nothing to do with Callie's disappearance but Kenny is not convinced. Is he right or is the cancer in his brain making him read the situation wrong?

This book is chilling. The reader finds himself cheering Kenny on, even as an impartial view shows that he is doing a horrific crime. The devolution of the men's relationship mimics the devolution of Kenny's health and sanity. Neil Cross is a screenwriter who wrote for the Dr. Who and Spooks television series in England before writing the tremendously successful Luther series. One of his novels has been long-listed for the Booker Prize. This novel is recommended for mystery readers.

Kenny is dying with terminal cancer and only has a couple of weeks to live left. Kenny has drawn up a list of four people he felt he hadn’t done right and also needed to thank in some cases. One Is Mary his ex wife who is now basically his best friend and her husband is a friend to Kenny also.Then there was Mr. Jegnathron, third was Tommy Kintry and then Callie. He decides to track down his old middle school friend- Callie who had been sweet to Kenny back in middle school. Kenny had been a loner, and a kid that just didn’t seem to fit in Callie had helped Kenny deal with his mom's death and his father’s mental illness. Then one day Callie just disappeared from Jr. High. Nowt Callie has disappeared again and was a mystery and was never found and it has already been a couple years. . Then Kenny starts his own investigation and questions Callie’s husband Jonathan who most believe why Callie is mysteriously missing and Kenny feels Jonathan is hiding something. Kenny’s friend Pat was once a cop and was also helping Kenny look for Callie and he finds in police records where Callie had been in the hospital in 2004 with broken wrists and cracked ribs. Then as time goes on Kenny starts changing and becoming more violent himself.
This was a good story to read a bit on the sad side but real life can be sad so should some stories and I liked this one. It had a great plot . I liked how Kenny wake things right between himself and some people before his time was done. But I did feel it was odd it was a girl from middle school who he really centered on. He is really determined to try to find out what happened to her. I just kinda think he would want to be with people who cared for him more recently but then again that would be his ex wife and her present husband so makes sense to me in a weird way . But I still really enjoyed this story . my heart went out to Kenny as he really wasn’t that old to have such a horrible diagnosis. I liked the ins and outs of this story and the characters and I recommend.

The main character, Kenny behaved in a very unorthodox way through this book. His dealings and ideas into finding Callie were just really weird and for that reason I couldn't understand or get on board with how he becomes involved in her disappearance. It was just all over the place for me. The twists were a little too much. I'd rather have a plot, a motive, maybe a twist or two, and an ending. Did not get that here.