When Livvy was a little girl, she saw her father standing over the body of her mother, with a bloody pair of scissors in his hand. Her father was arrested and later found guilty of murder and sentenced to prison.
Some twenty years later, the father is being released from prison. He is dying and only has a few months left to live. He wants to reunite with his only child, Livvy, but in Livvy's mind he is the monster who murdered her mother.
Livvy's parents were successful Hollywood actors, wealthy and gorgeous. The dad began using drugs when his career began to decline while his beautiful wife's career was soaring. It caused a lot of tension and he was at times abusive.
Naturally, the public is interested in the lives of two such Hollywood stars and successful true-crime author, Noah Brady, has been talking to the dad in view of publishing a book about the crime. His research takes him to River's End, the resort where Livvy has been living for twenty years with her maternal grandparents. She doesn't remember much of what happened that night, although she has suffered from nightmares about it. Noah makes a terrible mistake when he fails to reveal to Livvy why he has come to River's End looking for details about the murder. When she finds out, she is enraged and sends him packing, even though they initially hit it off. Then she finds out that her father is free from prison and now someone is trying to kill her.
This was an OK story. Pretty typical murder mystery. Spoiler: the killer is someone who is barely mentioned in the story. I don't like it when writers do that.
Review by Publishers Weekly.
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