London can make poetry out the simplest things: “They say very still as darkness filled the room.” It’s such a pleasure to read her prose that it hardly matters what the story is about. The Good Parents does, however, contain a compelling mystery: the disappearance of eighteen year old country girl Maya, whose parents find her gone when they come to stay with her.
This is a beautiful, glacially paced thriller where every nuance is captured. So good. Bettered only by London’s later Golden Age, where even less happens.
