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A review by marilynw
The Better Sister by Alafair Burke
4.0
Chloe and her husband Adam seem to have a happy marriage. Chloe is a famous and successful journalist and Adam is a successful lawyer. Ethan is Adam's sixteen year old son by Nicky, and Ethan considers Chloe "Mom" and Chloe loves Ethan as if he were her own. Chloe created the "Them, too" movement and is lauded for promoting women's rights and strengths to stand up for themselves.
Behind the scenes, we find that Ethan's mom, Nicky, is Adam's ex-wife and their marriage ended very badly with Chloe siding with Adam and against Nicky, during the divorce proceedings. Chloe and Adam's marriage is not going well at all, with Adam resenting Chloe for pushing him into the private sector while he would have prefered remaining a prosecuting DA. Things really go bad for everyone when Adam is murdered and Ethan is charged with murdering his father. Chloe and Nicky, who've had nothing to do with each other for the last fourteen years, team up with each other to support Ethan and attempt to find out what really happened the night Adam was killed and what was going on in Adam's life, leading up to his murder.
This book has a lot of things I enjoy, a murder mystery, police investigations, and courtroom drama. It's a slow moving story, so patience is needed to get to the bottom of the mystery. Based on this story, I plan to read Alafair's other two books in what she considers a thematic trilogy, The Ex and The Wife.
Behind the scenes, we find that Ethan's mom, Nicky, is Adam's ex-wife and their marriage ended very badly with Chloe siding with Adam and against Nicky, during the divorce proceedings. Chloe and Adam's marriage is not going well at all, with Adam resenting Chloe for pushing him into the private sector while he would have prefered remaining a prosecuting DA. Things really go bad for everyone when Adam is murdered and Ethan is charged with murdering his father. Chloe and Nicky, who've had nothing to do with each other for the last fourteen years, team up with each other to support Ethan and attempt to find out what really happened the night Adam was killed and what was going on in Adam's life, leading up to his murder.
This book has a lot of things I enjoy, a murder mystery, police investigations, and courtroom drama. It's a slow moving story, so patience is needed to get to the bottom of the mystery. Based on this story, I plan to read Alafair's other two books in what she considers a thematic trilogy, The Ex and The Wife.