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|title=I Can See in the Dark

|author=Karin Fossum

|publisher=Vintage

|date=July 2014

|summary=It's all in the complex and convincing lead character here, as the events of his confession don't amount to a full hill of beans – more like a small pile.

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''I can see in the dark''. This admission, from the narrator as a young school child, is about the only thing he remembers of his youth. Or so he says at one point, only to contradict himself a couple of times, as he remembers something about his father, and about being bullied slightly over his looks while at school. Do we have an unreliable narrator on our hands? Well, he's unreliable in one aspect – he works in a care home for the elderly and infirm and spends his days ignoring their needs, switching or ditching their medicines, and picking on them while they are close to death. But death is also close to him – one day he sees a disaster pan out, which actually has links to the very small circle of people he knows, either from work, or from religiously observing them in the local park. But there is a lot more than just that – more deaths are in fact a lot closer to him, as this confession reveals…