Death seems to
follow Maya Burkett. When the story opens, she is attending the
funeral of her husband. He was murdered in Central Park in what
appears to have been a robbery gone bad. Now Maya is a widow with a
two-year-old daughter, Lily, who she loves very much and wants to
protect. When a friend gives her a nanny cam, she sets it up in the
den where Lily plays. Everything goes well until watching the
pictures from the nanny cam she sees her dead husband enter the room
and play with her daughter.
This is not Maya's
first experience with death. Her sister was recently murdered. While in
Iraq, Maya was responsible for the death of civilians. These deaths
haunt her and now she has to deal with what happened to her husband
and how he could have appeared on the nanny cam.
If you enjoy
thrillers with lots of twists, outstanding characters, and a riveting
plot, don't miss this one. Maya is one of the
strongest female characters I've read about in a long time. She's
well trained military and completely fearless. Her friends in the
book and even the evil characters are engaging. The plot is filled
with twists. Every time you think you've figured out what's happening
the frame shifts and you see it from a different angle.
Perhaps the most
poignant scenes are those where Maya, who is troubled with PTSD from
her experiences in Iraq, is with people who are laughing and enjoying
time is the sun with their families. It's a stark contrast.
I highly recommend
this book. I enjoyed it. The pace is fast and the plot is hard to
figure out until the end.
I received this book
from Penguin Random House for this review.
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