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Twenty years before the book opens, she was Rachel Gaston. Her dad was a cop, and her half-brother, Luke, had the hots for a girl in the school who befriended Rachel presumably to get closer to Luke.
It was a high-school prank back then. They were all meeting at the abandoned cannery near the river. It was just a harmless game of shoot’em-up with a pellet gun. Nobody would get hurt. Rachel doesn’t even want to go, but she shows up at the last minute, and Luke gives her an extra pellet gun he brought. Students fire at will, and so does Rachel. Problem is, the pellet she thought she was firing turned out to be a real bullet, and her half-brother is dead when he gets to the hospital.
Several kids testified at her consequent trial, insisting that she didn’t kill Luke. They found no residue on her hands that would indicate that she fired a real gun, but he is indeed dead.
Twenty years after his death, someone begins killing the women who testified at Rachel’s trial—the one where they pronounced her not guilty. Are the new murders indeed connected to Luke’s death 20 years earlier?
Rachel has become an anxiety ridden single mother of two teens who are both despicable by every measure. Her fears ramp up when she learns of her dead classmates. She’s afraid whoever is killing them will come for her.
This is a twisty thriller, and many of these characters will infuriate you. But the twists are memorable by every measure, and you’ll avoid heart rate increases as you read this only if you’re dead or something akin to that. I guessed one of the scenarios here early on, but I didn’t realize why my guess was valid until near the end. This is good, riveting writing.
It was a high-school prank back then. They were all meeting at the abandoned cannery near the river. It was just a harmless game of shoot’em-up with a pellet gun. Nobody would get hurt. Rachel doesn’t even want to go, but she shows up at the last minute, and Luke gives her an extra pellet gun he brought. Students fire at will, and so does Rachel. Problem is, the pellet she thought she was firing turned out to be a real bullet, and her half-brother is dead when he gets to the hospital.
Several kids testified at her consequent trial, insisting that she didn’t kill Luke. They found no residue on her hands that would indicate that she fired a real gun, but he is indeed dead.
Twenty years after his death, someone begins killing the women who testified at Rachel’s trial—the one where they pronounced her not guilty. Are the new murders indeed connected to Luke’s death 20 years earlier?
Rachel has become an anxiety ridden single mother of two teens who are both despicable by every measure. Her fears ramp up when she learns of her dead classmates. She’s afraid whoever is killing them will come for her.
This is a twisty thriller, and many of these characters will infuriate you. But the twists are memorable by every measure, and you’ll avoid heart rate increases as you read this only if you’re dead or something akin to that. I guessed one of the scenarios here early on, but I didn’t realize why my guess was valid until near the end. This is good, riveting writing.