Genre: Thriller
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2018
Pages: 400
Rating: Do Not Recommend
Synopsis: Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn't seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she's even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another change to be a mother to the child she though she'd lost forever, her only daughter Anna.
Maggie and Noah know that having Anna around will change their lives, but they would never have guessed that everything would go wrong, and so quickly. Anna turns out to be a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules, though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at trouble brewing in a once-perfect marriage and home.
Events take a heartbreaking turn when Anna is murdered and Noah is accused and tried for the heinous crime. Maggie must face not only the devastation of losing her daughter, but the realization that Anna's murder may been at the hands of a husband she loves. In the wake of this tragedy, new information drives Maggie to search for the truth, leading her to discover something darker than she could have ever imagined.
Review: May was such a great month of reading for me, and June has been the opposite.
It's not that I didn't end up really liking this book, I did, but what a slow start. Around page 200, I had to make a decision. . . to keep going or not. I flipped to the last chapter, and I was intrigued by how it ended so I decided to stick with it.
Wrought with plot holes, misinformation, and a rushed/forced/convenient ending, this was not a good choice as a first Lisa Scottoline novel. If she consistently writes this poorly, she wouldn't be as published as she is.
Really disappointing.
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