I love Karin Slaughter”s novels! She knows how to pace and create suspense, her characters are believable and complicated and she always has the most interesting plot lines! if you have not read her, you really need to put her on your to-read list!

Leigh Collier is an up and coming defense attorney working at one of the prestigious law firms in Atlanta. Separated from her husband with whom she amicably co- parents their sixteen year old daughter, Leigh has managed to create an image of a normal life, even if it is the middle of a pandemic.  But under that facade of normalcy, are secrets, betrayal and a brutal act of violence, that Callie, Leigh’s younger sister has never recovered from.

So it is with profound horror that Leigh realizes that the person she has been urgently called upon by the partners of her firm to defend on a rape charge is none other than the one person who knows her family’s secrets. Trapped by her client’s knowledge of what happened to her and her sister twenty years ago and with mounting suspicions that her client is a psychopath and rapist, Leigh tries to find away to save her family and bring her client to justice without arousing his suspicions.

Fast paced with finger biting suspense and great characters whose flaws make them human and relatable, Slaughter has created another wonderful reading expereince!

Brenda’s Rating ****(4 Out of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to: Sharon, Marian and Keith.

Book Study worthy? yes

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