M. Erpenbeck
ASIN: B07212JR4Z
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 272
'Half Past Monday' is a 5-star thriller mixing crime with science fiction as it dissects one murder case in various alternative timelines.Dr. Dominic Rivera was unaware of his wife's traumatic childhood - that is, until she killed their only child. Losing a child is a tragedy by itself, but Dominic is also plagued with questions about his own culpability; was his willful ignorance a contributing factor to his family's demise?The young doctor is riddled with guilt, and doesn't hesitate when later gifted a 'do-over'. Though limited to modifying only one day from his past, Dominic's confident that he knows a way to fix it all. He thought he'd been succesful, too, but quickly learns small changes to our collective timelines are impossible. Though he temporarily gets his family back, it's not the same that he'd lost. When his daughter is subsequently kidnapped and he's the prime suspect in ...