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Published: August 20, 2024
Length: 349 pages
Format: Kindle Edition
Genre: Thriller
Characters: Perla Wultz, Grant and Sophie
POV: dual, 1st person

𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉:
ery dark content, murder, terminal cancer, knife violence, narcissistic, mystery, short chapters

Review

Such a difficult book to read. The subject matter was disturbing. The storyline was hard to follow. Too confusing. The characters were not likable and I guessed most of the twists, so nothing came as a huge surprise for me. There are lots of fabulous reviews for this book so I can confidently say it’s a ME case.

“Saving a life had been thrilling. Too bad it couldn’t compare with the inverse.”

“The ultimate power in a marriage is the manipulation ability of knowing how and when your spouse will act and react.”

“I learned a while ago that anticipation and hope were half of the enjoyment of life.”

“Not ugly. No. Our scars are never ugly. They are proof of what we’ve been through. Truth be told, they can be the most beautiful parts of us, if we learn to love them.”

“Sometimes it’s not the people that change. It’s the mask that falls off.”

Blurb

Perla Wultz lives with her husband, Grant, and their precious daughter, Sophie, in a gated Pasadena community. Affluent, sociable, and accomplished, Perla plays the part of loving wife and mother to perfection. It seems an ideal life, if not for a decades-old crime that has become Perla’s dark and consuming secret obsession.

Twenty-three years ago, Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during a birthday party. Though he’s been condemned to a life sentence, his crime is not forgotten. Not by Perla, nor by an inquisitive doctoral student interviewing Folcrum for his dissertation. He’s getting the killer to open up—about his motives, his confession, and the truth of what really happened on that horrible night.

As the past and the present entwine, the deceptions behind the infamous murder begin to surface. But who’s deceiving who now? And why? And as an ingeniously twisted plan is set in motion, who will be the next to die?