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A review by julielb
I Did It For You by Amy Engel
2.0
This book was in one of my recent hauls from the library. New author to me and I was excited about the general summary, thinking it would be a good mystery.
A woman travels back to her hometown after learning that a teen boy and his girlfriend are murdered similarly to how her teen sister and her boyfriend were killed 10 years earlier. The young man who was charged and convicted of their deaths was put to death recently. The woman, Greer, now needs to know if the man who was charged with her sister's death really did it or if they got it wrong years ago. Surprisingly she teams up with the brother of the man charged with the deaths and they set out to reinvestigate the old case.
This started good, interesting and grabbed my interest. But at one point in the story, perhaps almost halfway, I read something that to me made it glaringly obvious as to what actually happened and made the rest of the book more sluggish to get through. I skimmed to the end and saw that yes, I was right with what I thought.
The author is good writer and would read another. Just felt this one was middle of the road for me.
A woman travels back to her hometown after learning that a teen boy and his girlfriend are murdered similarly to how her teen sister and her boyfriend were killed 10 years earlier. The young man who was charged and convicted of their deaths was put to death recently. The woman, Greer, now needs to know if the man who was charged with her sister's death really did it or if they got it wrong years ago. Surprisingly she teams up with the brother of the man charged with the deaths and they set out to reinvestigate the old case.
This started good, interesting and grabbed my interest. But at one point in the story, perhaps almost halfway, I read something that to me made it glaringly obvious as to what actually happened and made the rest of the book more sluggish to get through. I skimmed to the end and saw that yes, I was right with what I thought.
The author is good writer and would read another. Just felt this one was middle of the road for me.