Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

 

After the mediocre-to-bad choices the last few nights, it was a refreshing change of pace to actually enjoy the novel I read without reservation. It's not perfect, there's perhaps a little too much unearned misdirection going on, and some of the characters and events don't ring entirely on-key; but it's a good novel. The prose is clean and displays some occasional verve, the overall story worked, and the tension inherent in the premise is important to the novel (if not entirely resolved). The fact the POV character is an astrophysicist who lives in the Big Bend area of Texas just sucked me right in at the start, but it wasn't as though I wasn't a willing passenger.