Evangeline Book

An interesting and horrific story, revealed to the reader piece by piece in a form of a court case.
It's an easy novel to fly through and it's hard to make a book about this topic not terribly fascinating. However, I wasn't a fan of the ending and some things around the end (even though there was one nice little twist) and don't think the private chapters of the lawyer added a lot for me.
The big draw of the book is forming your own opinion as the jury does: Is Marlowe a murderer or savior? While I was intruiged by the details revealed about what happened on the boat and learning about the characters and their motivations, the author never managed to shake my opinion about Marlowe and the whole situation.
With a book like this, everyone will either start with the believe of "nothing justifies such action" or "it obviously saved people's life, so even if it's unthinkable it it justified" and the novel never made me even so much as question my base opinion. If Marlowe had been more of a polarizing character or there were some more effective twists, this might have been the case, but as it is I was never confused nor worried about him.
I mean it's still a really good story but it never inspired any (emotional) reaction apart from what comes naturally with this topic.