The
three children -- Miranda, Jeff, and Alex -- are absolutely devastated by their
missing mother, and they have mixed emotions about the possibility that their defense
lawyer father could have killed her, especially when he quickly moves in his
girlfriend and her daughter. The mystery of just what happened to Jane Larkin will
remain unsolved even when her skeleton is found 20 years after her
disappearance.
Miranda
has already tried to tell the story from her mother’s point of view just to “get
it out” as she is probably the most haunted of the three children. Worse, she’s
in charge of taking care of her father who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Could the diagnosis finally “clear” him of any further attempts to prosecute
him? While the children have finally been able to bury the skeleton of their
mother, they are still troubled because they don’t know what happened that
November day in 1975.
In
a mystery that spans a lifetime, Miranda remains suspicious of her father yet
she is his caretaker, Jeff absolutely hates his father and stays away in San
Francisco, and only Alex believes it is possible that his father didn’t murder
his mother. How can any of their doubts be satisfied, especially now that Dan’s
health is impairing his memories?
William Landay is the author of the New York Times bestseller Defending
Jacob, which was produced on film for Apple TV+ in 2020. His debut novel in
2003, Mission Flats, won the Dagger Award for best debut crime novel. The Strangler, a Los Angeles Times
favorite crime novel, was nominated for the Strand Magazine Critics
Award as best crime novel of 2007.
My review
will be posted on Goodreads starting December 7, 2022.
I would like
to thank Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in
return for an objective review.
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