Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

3 1/2 stars
Vesta is out for a walk in the woods with her only companion, her dog Charlie, when she finds a strange note about Magda who is dead and that the note's author didn't do it. There is no body, there aren't any news reports and even though Vesta is shaken up she refuses to let the matter go. Maybe it is because she is lonely, maybe it is because she can't come to terms with her husband's death or maybe she wasn't that stable to begin with, but her mind begins to unravel and she becomes obsessed with finding Magda's killer. This slim novel filled with unspooling prose is the disintegration of Vesta's mind and marriage.