https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/27/nothing-can-hurt-you-by-nicola-maye-goldberg-review-dark-yet-roguishly-funny

A chorus of voices shed light on a student found dead in the woods in this sparkling reworking of the traditional thriller

The thrilling thing about Nothing Can Hurt You, a novel marketed as a successor to Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, is that it barely counts as a thriller. Whereas the aforementioned books twisted and turned traditionally, Nicola Maye Goldberg’s offering is more a collection of short stories, each a delicate character study. For once, unusually, the reader knows the killer and the victim almost at the outset.

Each chapter focuses on someone who, tangentially or directly, is connected to Sara, a late-90s liberal arts college student found dead in woods in upstate New York: her former best friend; her boyfriend; the person who discovers her body; the woman who marries her killer; a cub reporter who covers the story, and more. Told in both the first and third person, the narratives are interlinked and engage with Sara’s. Some are aware of the ties; others are not.