Print Length: 347 pages
Publisher: Bookouture (February 24, 2025)
From Goodreads.com: It’s almost midnight when Jennifer sees her son’s name flash up on her phone. Away at university, she’s normally so happy when he calls. But something is terribly wrong…
Jennifer is devastated for poor Ella’s family – losing their precious girl, so young. She knows her sweet son, just twenty years old, would never, ever harm anyone. But the police are looking for him. And if Dan is innocent, why has he run?
When Jennifer hears how Ella died, her blood runs cold. Because Jennifer’s best friend was murdered twenty years ago the same way. In the same place. Jennifer hasn’t been back since… but now, she has no choice.
She would do anything for her son. Any mother would. But how far will she have to go – what secrets in her own past will she have to confront – to prove Dan is innocent?
And what if the truth is worse than she ever imagined?
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My Rating: 2 stars out of 5
Let's see, where do I even begin with this one? To start, Jennifer has got to be one of the stupidest main characters that I have read in quite some time. First, she rushes into town to "save her son" despite having absolutely no idea where he is or what he could be caught up in. Then once she gets there, she sets off to begin her own investigation (although to be honest its not much of one, merely her speaking to people who knew her son and hiding things from the police).
From the moment she steps foot into town, it's like she has lost all sense of self-preservation, repeatedly running into situations that most sane people would avoid at all costs. And I get it (to a point), she can't go to the police with certain pieces of the puzzle as then she would have to explain how she came across them, why she held onto them for so long, and admit to the fact that it makes her son look suspicious of something at least. However, she could have (and should have) gone to the police about the tracker that was placed on her car. She could have, and should have, given them an abbreviated version of being kidnapped (she was a clever woman, I'm sure she could have come up with a plausible reason for being in that area without divulging the second cell phone). Although to be fair, considering the police hadn't been able to make the connection themselves to the fact that she was the Jennifer whose friend and roommate had been killed twenty-five years ago, nor did they know they man convicted on that crime had a son who was now grown, I can see why Jennifer would be hesitant to trust them. However, Jennifer didn't know that they hadn't until near the end of the book.
As for the "twists", I had most of them figured out fairly early on so I didn't find anything surprising about who was all involved and what their parts in the overall story was. I also copped to Daniel's hiding spot pretty quickly (in fact, it was so obvious to me that I'm not sure how neither the police department, his mother, nor the people looking for him didn't figure it out almost immediately).
On the plus side, it only took me a few hours to finish so it wasn't like I spent days trying to get through it.
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