James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

Well, this book is a wild ride. It was touted as mind-bending and genre-bending and it's certainly both—mind-bending enough, in fact, that somewhere toward the end my brain had had enough. I think it would take a series of late-night conversations with other people who've read the book for me to be confident I know exactly what happened.

It starts off as an interesting true-crime-y novel. Who killed the man from Primrose Lane, the guy who walked around all the time with mittens on, even in the summer?

That would have been enough for the book, truly, but there's a lot more going on than that, and there's a lot of jumping around in the timeline, and the story moves between different characters' perspectives. It's kind of awesome and kind of confusing. Definitely worth reading, though.