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Reviewed by Kristin
Penny is a rookie cop, motivated into the career by the loss
of her twin sister Nix five years earlier. At her very first murder scene in an
Atlanta suburb, she not only recognizes the male victim as someone who hurt Nix
and helped to create the downward spiral which led to her death, Penny then
practically stumbles across a blonde woman holding a bloody box cutter.
When the woman cryptically says that the events of the night
were all about sisters, Penny is taken aback and allows the woman to flee. Not
exactly proper cop behavior, but Penny needs to find out how this murder is
connected to Nix.
Penny discovers a slow burn trail of clues which takes the
reader through many twists and turns. I didn't see the end coming, although of
course I second guessed whether I should have. In this kind of domestic
suspense, everyone is a suspect.
Jackson is brilliant at taking the plot in unexpected
directions, while maintaining believability in the end. Every time I read one
of her books, I feel that she really understands human nature in all its
various possibilities. People are complex, and Jackson's characters are
multi-dimensional in all the right ways.
I read this as an advanced reader copy (ARC) ebook, and I will
look for the audiobook when it is available. Jackson usually narrates her own
audiobooks in her distinctive but not overwhelming Southern accent, which I
find wonderfully entertaining.
Thanks to Joshilyn Jackson and William Morrow for the ARC
allowing me the intense excitement of reading my favorite author’s latest work
months early, in exchange for an honest review!
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