Nora Holliday, a food blogger, is at a convention. Josh Landon, an
orthodontist, is at a different convention at the same hotel. He’s
taken care of Nora’s children so it seems harmless to have a drink
together. However, the drink and conversation last much too long and
then, even though they’re not that kind of people, they’re having
an affair.
Josh’s wife Gwen,
seems like a lovely person on the outside. She and Josh appear to be
the perfect couple, but then she’s found in the Landon’s yard
with her head bashed in. This puts a great deal of strain on the
family, but also on the Nora and Josh relationship.
I liked Nora and
Josh. Affairs are wrong, but I couldn’t help wanting them to be
together because their partners were so bad for them. Gwen was a
self-centered bitch. She certainly made the perfect victim. Abby,
Gwen and Josh’s daughter, was a hard character to figure out. She
was home from college having suffered a romantic disappointment.
However, her response to the trauma seemed out of proportion to the
injury.
The setting was well
done. Lovely suburban communities like Shoreham while serene on the
surface often are a seething mass of discontent and anger.
I thought the book
was well done. The identity of the killer is hard to figure out. I
felt it was almost an anticlimax after so much emotion surrounded the
affair between Nora and Josh.
I received this book
from Harlequin for this review.
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