Melanie is late
again picking up her baby, Alex. The babysitter is a stickler for
punctuality. Worried, she pounds on the babysitter’s door, only to
be told that Social Services has taken the baby. How can that be? She
was only two minutes late.
When she arrives
home, it gets worse. Crime scene tape is stung across the porch and
inside her house is a shambles, raided by the sheriff’s deputies.
They found cocaine. Melanie knows she’s clean, but the evidence is
stacked against her. She could lose Alex and go to jail for years.
Amy Kaye, the
assistant commonwealth’s attorney, is assigned to Melanie’s case. She's working the case or a serial rapist who has been operating in the county for years.
Shockingly, Melanie was one of his victims. Amy can’t get
cooperation on the rapist case. She feels that Melanie’s case is
more complex than it appears,
perhaps related to the rape, but again she gets little cooperation.
Two women from
different perspectives battle law enforcement. The book is skillfully
written. You can feel Melanie’s desperation and Amy’s
frustration. The pace is fast with hardly any breathing room. All the
characters are well defined. People you can connect with. I enjoyed
the fact that chapters were written from both Amy’s and Melanie’s
point of view.
This is book is so
closely written that taking in all the problems Melanie is facing can
sometimes seem overwhelming. It’s also a good reminder that law
enforcement people are not without their own issues. It makes you
hope that you never get caught in the kind of trap Melanie is in.
I received this book
from Dutton for this review.
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