Books like The Driver's Seat

Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to play itself out. How it does is what you think of after you've finished the book, and in fact that is probably the most enjoyable bit. Its very clever and creepy creepy creepy.This is a very economical review because anything I say might well spoil the creepiness of this very short novella. Suffice it to say that Muriel Spark's writing is very spare, she doesn't even use a phrase where a single word would do. Her characters reveal themselves, their creepiness, much as people do, you can seize them up almost immediately. Always remembering, that first impressions can be wrong!Review totally rewritten 2 July 2019 as it was full of spoilers, and it was the creepiness I remembered as making it a 5 star