I like the way Egan colored each character. Wives, children, investigators – all tell their story about the sculptor, from their perspective. The death is discovered to be a murder, that of a famous sculptor. The writer makes him come to life, and he carries his own personality through the story, growing more and more as each character shares their life and how he affected them. The ending isn’t so important as writing style and how each character becomes real, and individual. Yes, a man was murdered, and the murderer found, but the memories of all those involved, and how they interact, and how the sculptor affected them, that’s the point.