Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Fool Me Once

I like Harlan Coben's books and have blogged about several of them (The Woods, Long Lost, and Missing You) . He has written almost 2 dozen books, a series of sport-related ones featuring Myron Bolitar (good even if you aren't a sports fan), and his stand-alone thrillers.
Here we meet former Army Captain and special ops helicopter pilot Maya Stern Burkett, whose husband Joe has been recently murdered. She is left to care for their two-year old daughter, Lily, and is encouraged by a friend to get a nanny cam, even though the nanny she has hired is the daughter of Joe's former nanny. Joe Burkett comes from a wealthy family and this is the 2nd of their sons to die, although the younger son died several years ago. Maya is also reeling from the brutal torture and murder of her sister, Claire, just two years ago. Maya is beginning to feel like death follows her.
But she is determined to find her sister's killer--obsesssed, actually, about bringing him/ her to justice. Then the investigating detective tells Maya that the gun that killed her husband was the same one that killed her sister. One of her former Army buddies, Shane, helps her follow old leads but more deaths follow and someone is setting Maya up to look like the killer. When Maya comes home one day and reviews the nanny cam, she sees Joe walk into the room where Lily is playing. But of course that can't be, because Maya was there when Joe was shot in the park. This is a very twisty cat and mouse game and the ending is a real shocker.

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