2008-07-19 A hauntingly real character

There is very little to criticise about this novel. The whole book pivots around the complex and disturbing central character, Mike Engleby, and his reaction to the mysterious disappearence of his university "friend", Jennifer. The subsequent account of his life details his attempts to fit into life in the seventies and eighties, as the police investigation attempts to discover Jennifer's fate.
Engleby is a novel which shouldn't be read as a murder mystery; instead, read it as a fascinating study of the character and nature of Engleby, an individual so fully formed, yet flawed, as to be completely believable.