"Memory Man" by David Baldacci. This book is published by Pan McMillan India in 2015 and has 352 pages.
Amis Decker's (a detective) life is devastated one day when he finds his brother-in-law, wife and daughter killed brutally. He looses his house, job, life and starts living life of a homeless private investigator. One fine day a person walks in police station and confesses murders of his family. There is a shooting in local school on same day.
Amis has hyperthymesia. Hyperthymesia is the condition of possessing an extremely detailed autobiographical memory. Such a person can recall almost every day of his life in near perfect detail.
Will Amis avenge the killings? Is confessor the murderer? Are the two incidents related? Will he go back to normal life, ever? Can he solve this?
The book is nicely paced. Hyperthymesia, a very rare disorder, makes the book interesting. It's good to see that the protagonist, though having hyperthymesia, is tall, fat and overweight person and has characteristics of a common man. David is a master story teller and he does not disappoint. Characterization is unusual.
The book starts with triple murder but then the mystery thickens with school shooting, another murder, another one and then a double murder. However when the mystery is unraveled and the reason behind murders becomes clear, one can not help but think 'is that possible?'
Book ends with definite seeds of a sequel.
Read it for a change.
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