Trust No One by Paul Cleave

 

This turned out to be a reasonably engaging thriller, if not a particularly believable one, there are things going on as it unwinds that just fail plausibility checks in ways that at least make the willful suspension of disbelief more difficult. The main character is a guy with early-onset rapidly-progressing Alzheimer's, which is reasonably fine, and the tension in the novel is whether he's really the killer he (sometimes) remembers being, but the ways' that tension is resolves just seem like not things that happen, and some of the characters end up doing some pretty dramatic heel-turns. The narrator here is, of course, amazingly unreliable, and it's a credit to the author that I didn't simply spit the bit and stop reading--the voice is nicely tuned and the phrases run to the brilliantly turned--but the premise just kept me from trying to figure out what was really going on, as the twists just kept folding in on themselves until the ending kinda imploded.