The Decagon House Murders

This was delightfully twisty, but also tragic and somewhat grisly. I've made an important discovery in the continual fine-tuning of my mystery tastes: I really do prefer a detective-led story. A cat and mouse game between reader and author (POV: culprit) rather than investigator v. crime still leaves you with a puzzle to solve, but experience suggests they are often darker, sadder, without the champion for truth playing a feature role. Not my vibe, but that doesn't mean it wasn't objectively engaging.