Genre: Mystery / Suspense
Book Type: Physical
Author: Christina Alger
Narrator: Kyla Garcia
Pages / Length: 320 pages / 8 hours and 47 minutes
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (July 27, 2021) / Penguin Audio
Book Description:
The instant New York Times bestseller, for the first time in mass market: Worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island and faces the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father?
FBI agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was murdered when Nell was just seven.
When Martin dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house where she grew up so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County. The further Nell digs, the more likely it seems to her that her father should be the primse suspect--and that his friends on the police force are covering his tracks.
Plagued by doubts about her mother's murder, and her own role in exonerating her father in that case, Nell can't help but ask questions about who killed the two women and why. But she may not like the answers she finds--not just about those she loves, but about herself.
Thoughts:
I enjoyed the pace of this book and that it kept moving. I liked that Nell was a strong woman who fought for justice and (although fearful of what she may find), kept pursuing the truth.
I found the ending a bit “rushed” as in it all ties up, with a few surprises, that worked and didn’t work at the same time. I wanted more context or wish there were more clues for some of the twists earlier on, as I’m not sure they were necessary (or that there could have been a bit more information around how the twists happened).
Overall, it was a good book and would make for a good series book, as most ends were tied up, but there were definitely some storylines that could continue.
Favorite Quotes:
🕵️ Like a lot of agents, I save my drinking for the privacy of home. (page 7)
🕵️ My father liked to come home to a clean, quiet house. My mother argued that she was not running a military base, she was trying to raise a child. She wanted me to color and spill, to cook and make forts out of blankets and couch cushions with out worrying about what it did to the furniture. (page 73)
🕵️ I have guys quitting all the time because they can't live off what we get paid. How can you ask some kid to put his life on the line every day if he can hardly afford the mortgage on his house? Suffolk County is so damn expensive. Working folks can't afford to live here any more. These rich people, they want us to cater to them. But where are we supposed to live? (page 242)
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
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