Summer House with Swimming Pool

I did not read The Dinner, Herman Koch's first novel, which apparently got rave reviews, but based on reading this book, I am not going to seek it out either. I thought about stopping several times but just kept reading more out of morbid curiosity. I did not like any of the characters in this book, not that they weren't well drawn, rather that they are really not likable people. And if you can't identify with any of the characters or at least admire them, what is the point? Set in Holland and maybe France, the protagonist is a Dutch GP, Marc Schlosser, who really detests his patients, as best I can tell. He does not want them to take their clothes off because he thinks they are ugly, and he just listens to them for 20 minutes because he figures that's what it takes to keep them coming back. When a famous actor, Ralph Meier, becomes a patient, and then invites Schlosser, his wife and two daughters to visit him and his family at the summer home the Meiers rent near the coast of ???, life begins to spin out of control. There is something "off" about Meier, the way he looks at women, and on one occasion, his apparent willingness to beat them senseless if they provoke and then deny him sexually. When Schlosser's 14-year-old daughter disappears one evening while everyone is at the beach and is later found raped, suspicions grow, and Schlosser takes an unexpected opportunity to punish Meier, using his knowledge and skill as a physician. Turns out Meier didn't commit the rape, but he's dead now anyway, thanks to Schlosser, and really, he deserved to die. Just checked the NYT Book Review, and was pleasantly surprised to find they shared my assessment!