A mother walks her
five-year-old son home from school. It's raining and he's eager for
his snack. She raises her hand to push the wet hair out of her eyes.
He drops her hand, runs into the street, and is struck by a car. The
driver doesn't stop leaving the mother huddled over the body of her
son.
Detective Ray
Stevens gets the case. His young assistant, Kate, is pulled into the
case, and it becomes an obsession to find the hit-and run-driver.
Working intensely on the case, Ray and Kate become close, perhaps
closer than they should. Ray loves his wife, but the stresses of
growing children and long hours are taking their toll on the
closeness they used to have.
The first half of
the book is primarily about the investigation and the frustration of
being unable to solve the case. In the second half, the story shifts
to the characters affected by the tragedy and how they cope. It's
quite a twist. In one way, I like it, but in another it felt a little
too much like slight of hand.
This is a well done
psychological thriller. The author gets us into the heads of the good
characters and the bad and draws you into their world. I also
enjoyed the police procedural narrative in the early part of the
book. It's not easy to pull together a police procedural with a
serious psychological mystery, but the author did an good job.
I recommend this
book. It will draw you in and force you to look at loss and abuse in
a very personal way.
I received this book
from Net Galley for this review.
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