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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019
This is a flashback book to the time before Joe cheated. Before Julie was born. This can be a little disorienting at first, but once you get into the book it does not take long to adjust. IF I had one complaint it might be to have known this was coming so that I could go back and reread the 9th through the 11th books. However, this seems to slip seamlessly between the old stories with little mention or overlap into the previous books.
As the book begins Lindsay and Joe are accompanying a friend, Anna, in to testify against a "red-faced hog" monster (ya gotta love that), but that is where the flashback begins. In the flashback Joe meets Anna for the first time as she sits by the side of the road disheveled and sobbing. She had just seen a man who had brutalized her several years before and had tried to chase him down on her bike until she had crashed. Lindsay is hot on the trail of three missing teachers from a local high end private school. To her surprise, not so much ours, this chase finds her following the trail into the seedier side of town searching for her next serial murderer.
There are probably some things they could have done better, but really this book is much better than the last few and I was very pleased to have ordered it early. It was an easy way to get Lindsay and Joe back on common ground without having to rehash all of the troubles from the last two books and the affairs, so that was a really nice relief.
UPDATE:
On further reflection I probably should mention that this book does contain some graphic scenes of a sexual and abusive nature. However, as a survivor of sexual assault it did not cause me any distress. If that is something that may affect you in a negative way you may want to use caution in selecting this book.
Contains some inappropriate language (yes several F-bombs). [Note to Ms. Paetro: They are not necessary. The preview for the next book is already full of f-bombs, but I read this series because it did not have them.]
