What is the author's style in A Simple Plan: A Novel by Scott B. Smith?

The story is written in a straight-forward style and should prove easy to read for almost any reader. There are few words that will be unfamiliar to a person with an average vocabulary and those are insignificant to the understanding of the story line. The tone is of hopelessness and desperation as the characters continually try to find a way to thwart what is right in favor of what they want. The deaths are described in fairly graphic detail and that may be disturbing to some readers.