Three sisters, born into wealth and privilege, come together one terrible night and concoct a story to cover up what really happened to the man one of them was engaged to marry, pleading ignorance of the events that led to his death.
All three sisters were emotionally scarred by the events of that night, so much so that the trauma still lingered many years later. Summoned home by their autocratic father after years away, they are informed by him that he has hired an investigator to discover the truth of what happened the night Harley Taggert was killed. The father has been contemplating a run for governor and he doesn't want any hidden scandals coming up to taint his run. He has long suspected that his three daughters were somehow connected to Harley's death.
Confronted with this news brings back all the old memories of that night. Harley's fiancée was the middle daughter, Claire, and she was with Harley on his boat the night he died. She broke up with him that night when she realized that she was attracted to another boy. When Claire left Harley, he was alive and well. How he ended up dead came as a complete surprise to Claire. Her two sisters know more about the happenings of that night than they are willing to say. Claire agrees to go along with the story they have cooked up for her sisters' sakes. Claire was never told what really happened between Miranda and Paige, her sisters, and Harley, her ex-fiancé. Now, though, thanks to their father, all three sisters have to face up to what happened that tragic night.
This was an OK read. However, if the sisters had just been honest with each other, Harley's killer might have been revealed a lot sooner. It didn't make a lot of sense that Miranda decided that Claire had to remain in the dark about the true events of that night.
Also, the book is really long, a lot longer than it needed to be. I wish editors would cut a lot of the verbiage out of these novels that are much longer than needed to tell their story. Over 400 pages for what is basically a rather generic mystery story is too much. Do authors get paid by the word? Is that why novels have gotten longer and longer and longer?
Here is a review by Publishers Weekly.
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