Donnie is a Scotsman living in a cold, northerly part of Canada. His life is luxurious — he’s married into a wealthy family — but there’s something wrong and, as we read on, we can see the bad thing emerging. It gets worse. It’s truly awful. It will make you think of an appalling event that happened in the last century. One day, Donnie finds his dog lying in the snow — dead. Not just dead but brutally, brutally killed. Such was my general unease at this point that I thought Donnie might have done this himself. Is he a psycho? Then worse things happen. There’s a lot of blood. And the sadism will make you wince.
