The God of the Woods

Moore's setup — two missing children from the same wealthy Adirondack family, a generation apart — is pure thriller mechanics, but the novel spends most of its energy on the class structure around the disappearances rather than the whodunit itself. The large cast, shuffled across multiple timelines and points of view, occasionally strains credulity, and some chapters linger in a perspective longer than the material justifies. What holds the book together is Moore's interest in who gets believed, protected, and searched for based on their proximity to money — the mystery is almost incidental to that argument about power within families.