Thank you to NetGalley, Gordon McAlpine's publishing team, and Dreamscape Media for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review (unpaid).

I would also like to pay respect to Gordon McAlpine, who sadly passed away in 2021 to cancer. While I had not heard of him before this work, I am sad that it is his last and plan on working through his backlist as his writing captures the human mind in a way I have not read before.

I was enraptured by the first half of this book which consisted of mostly ruminations of Dr. Evelyn Grace Wilford and her conversations with Dorothy Gale and I do wish we had gotten to see more of that. Evelyn's main goal was to assess Dorothy's psychological state and yet we hear so little about or from Dorothy and more about how Evelyn simply believes Dorothy could not have committed the murder. 

About halfway through, Evelyn becomes obsessed with finding the actual murderer and we become focused on her perceived psychological state(s) of the murder suspects (

and none of her thoughts on the actual murderer

). I think this would have worked better as 1) a psychological assessment of Dorothy or 2) Evelyn spiraling into her insanity as she obsesses over Dorothy and the murder (or both), and not simply a commentary on religious groupthink. As is, I find it a little disappointing.