The Gloaming

In this intent and unexpectedly suspenseful work, Pilgrim Jones has devotedly followed her husband as he attends to his various NGO duties, mainly in Africa, only to be abandoned for another woman in the Swiss village where they are living. But here she doesn't play the role of stereotypically to-be-pitied wife, having accidentally fatally struck three children when she drives away in anger after discovering yet another betrayal; Finn (Away from You) skillfully and uncomfortably makes her guilt and disquiet the reader's as well. Pilgrim lands in Africa, making herself useful by carrying away the cursed remains of an albino African from the scrubby village where she was staying to the Tanzanian port city of Tanga. There, she falls in with a brassy expat and is eventually trapped in a plot for vengeance more twisty and real than a lot of domestic thrillers could manage.