A Sight for Sore Eyes (Paperback Shinsho)

Her stories often reveal the darker sides of human nature; I wonder what influenced her approach to building suspense and character depth.

The story seemed to take a breather before the final reveal, which made me curious if that was a deliberate choice to build tension or just pacing.

The small-town atmosphere added a layer of claustrophobia and suspicion—was this a conscious decision to heighten the mystery?