When Chief Digby asks to see her, Maggie O’Keefe is sure he’s
going to put her on desk duty or suggest she take maternity leave
early. She is, after all, almost eight months pregnant. After the
trouble they had getting pregnant, her husband, Sean, wants her to
take it easy and not risk the baby.
Chief Digby has a
rather different assignment. New evidence has been found in the cold
case of murdered teen, Eve Knox. Eve was Maggie’s best friend.
Twenty-five years ago Maggie and Eve’s sister, Nola, found Eve’s
body in one of the caves around Grotto, Iowa, where the teens lived.
There were two suspects: Nola, who had weird behaviors, and Nick,
Eve’s boyfriend, who had an explosive temper. Neither was charged
and both are still in town.
As the case
progresses, Maggie wonders if someone in town knows something they
want to keep hidden. She tries to ask her father, the previous chief
of police, but he has dementia and talk of the case upsets him.
Maggie worries about her involvement in the case, but she can’t let
it go.
This is a dark story
filled with strange characters and plenty of twists. The pace is not
particularly fast, but the twists in the case keep you reading. The
story switches between time periods, 1955 and the present. In the
present, Maggie tells the story in the first person. In 1955 Eve
gives the back story. While I don’t often like books that switch
between time periods, I thought it was effective in this book.
Both women are character that you can relate to. If you enjoy a
police procedural with a dark plot, this is a good one.
I received this book
from Harlequin for this review.
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