Why You'll Love This
A cold case, a teenage P.I. running his own revenge mission, and two girls who have no idea how deep they're already in.
- Great if you want: YA-adjacent crime fiction with morally complicated teen protagonists
- The experience: brisk and propulsive, with mounting tension as loyalties blur
- The writing: Davis keeps multiple agendas in play without losing narrative momentum
- Skip if: mixed reviews suggest uneven execution for some readers
About This Book
Two teenagers convinced they can solve a cold case. A man rotting in prison for a murder he may not have committed. And a fifteen-year-old secret that someone worked very hard to bury. When Betty and June discover a personal connection to a decades-old killing, they pull a skeptical teenage private investigator named Nickel into their orbit—and the three of them begin picking at threads that were never meant to be found. Davis builds his tension around a simple, unsettling premise: justice and truth are not always the same thing, and the people closest to the truth are rarely the ones who wanted it found.
What distinguishes Tunnel Vision as a reading experience is Davis's instinct for voice. The teenage protagonists feel genuinely young without being naïve, and Nickel carries a moral complexity that elevates him well beyond stock sidekick territory. The novel moves at a clipped, propulsive pace, but Davis takes time to let the emotional weight of the mystery settle into his characters. This is crime fiction that cares as much about who these kids are as it does about what actually happened in that alley fifteen years ago.
