I got a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

What do I say about this book? I mean the mystery was there, there were murders that happened, but then the book just gives up on solving them, there's no resolution. The police hit a brick wall, and life goes on as if nothing changed.

The book doesn't read like a novel. It reads like a set of events that happens randomly across the town, without much of a connecting thread. I honestly thought there was going to be more to the story, especially the motivations for why people did the things that they did, but that never came up.

There was a lot of information about how coal mines work which was very interesting. But that didn't compensate for this book being a mystery and not delivering on that front. I honestly wish the focus had been on the mystery rather than the way it ended, the end was such a massive let down.