by Lisa Jackson
First published 2013
Reporter Nikki Gillette watches Savannah's most despised woman prepare to leave prison. Twenty years earlier, Blondell O'Henry received a murder conviction for killing her daughter Amity and attacking her other children. Now Blondell's son Niall has withdrawn his testimony, destroying the prosecution's case. Nikki pursues the story with personal stakes. Amity was her childhood friend who died after begging Nikki to meet her that final night. Nikki refused, and the guilt still burns. Her uncle Alexander defended Blondell and may have been her lover. Detective Pierce Reed, Nikki's fiancé, warns her to stay away from the case. As Savannah swelters through a brutal summer, Nikki uncovers secrets surrounding everyone involved. Blondell's former boyfriend hides behind his snake-handling religious family. The original investigating officer guards his own mysteries. The connections reach into Nikki's own broken family history. Then new murders begin. Either Amity's real killer remained free all these years, or someone else has started hunting. Nikki races to learn what truly happened that night twenty years ago, but the truth may surface too late to save her own life.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Savannah
Period: 20 Years Ago
416 pages · Kindle Edition · Kensington Books