Sadie receives a phone call from an
unknown voice saying her twin sister, Amelia, is going to kill her
grandfather. Then she hears the shotgun blast. Was it Amelia, or one
of her others making the call? Amelia has been in psychiatric care
since she was a child diagnosed with multiple personality disorder,
technically Dissociative Identity Disorder. Sadie can't bear to think
that Amelia, or one of the others as actually killed her grandfather,
but she now must go back to Slaughter Creek and find out.
Once there, she meets Jake, now the
local sheriff. During high school they were an item even planning to
get married, until something terrible happened in Sadie's family. She
fled Slaughter Creek and hasn't been back. Now she's faced with
working with Jake to find out if her sister did commit murder.
The problems of mental illness
intertwine with the investigation of the murder. While it made a good
story, I found places that didn't well represent the actual problems
of multiple personality disorder, let alone other mental health
problems. I also felt the investigation was unrealistic. Jake is
basically a one man show as investigator with Sadie helping him. I
would have thought that a family member, even one trained in
counseling, would have been kept at arms length during the
investigation to avoid any conflict of interest.
If you like suspense and romance in
that order, I can recommend this book. It moves rapidly and has an
interesting, if unrealistic, plot. The appeal of the story is the
mystery and action. While Sadie and Jake muse about each other, the
romance is secondary.
I reviewed this book for the Amazon
Vine Program.
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