The Deepest Water by Kate Wilhelm (***)

I knew I would like this book before it started because the narrator on the audiobook version is my favorite, Marguerite Gavin. This is the story of a young woman who has just lost her writer father by murder. Though it was a good story, I had the killer figured out based on the synopsis before the book even began! They do tell you who the killer is pretty early in the book--a little less than 2/3 through, but then it becomes a race against time--to prove it and to stop it from happening again. It was poignant for me because even though my father wasn't murdered, his death was traumatic and I empathized with the main character, though I think she was much stronger. Her husband was really a jerk and got on my nerves. I wanted to scream at him. The resolution is so simple, yet fitting. I don't think I have ever read a suspense novel that had such a quiet conclusion. But it works. Maybe not the way I would have done it, but it's clean, neat, and deserving. Even if I did figure it out before I even heard the first words of the first chapter, I still enjoyed it.