At the center of 2018 Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s moving thriller is an oddball woman in her 60s who has inserted herself into the police investigation of a string of murders. Her middle-of-nowhere Polish hunting town has recently been ravaged by killings—and she thinks it has something to do with the animals her fellow townspeople have been slaughtering. A blend of fairy tale and murder mystery, Tokarczuk explores how we assign privilege and sanity to some over others as her astrology-obsessed, animal-loving protagonist demands to be heard.