Events seemingly take place 22 years after those in "The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau" when we are first introduced to Gorski. Here a seemingly innocent road accident sparks the parallel investigations of Gorski and the victim's son, Raymond, to find the truth. All the while we are insinuated into the lives of both Gorski and Raymond.
However, I am in two minds about this - whilst atmospheric and haunting with a clever and skillful plot - it left me a little flat - it was if a whole chapter was missing. I didn't think it was on par with that of "The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau" which was itself almost noirish. This plot - a fiction within a fiction - was subtle, dark, with the plot skillfully twisting back and forth between past and present wherein a man accused of a crime he did not commit. pays for one he did a long time ago for which another paid the price.
In both instances, Burnett gives us the impression that these stories are semi-autobiographical - they are cleverly written fake mystery novels revealing the truth about a fictional author.
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