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Apr 26, 2018USAF1969 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The cover of Lisa Scottoline's AFTER ANNA has a quote from the NYT Book Review. "Scottoline knows how to keep readers in her grip." Amen to that. I have trouble imagining how she is able to keep imagining such inventive plots, one after the other. No spoiler alerts from me on this one, but she certainly had her imagination in overdrive for this book. I kept having these "where is this going?" moments, particularly with the trial portion of the book. Well, very late in the game I had an inkling where it was going, but even then how it played out was a surprise. Great read as always from her, very engaging, lots of twists and turns. My one criticism is one that I have expressed in multiple reviews of multiple books by multiple authors. That is, really great story lines that are then rushed to very short endings that leave lots of loose ends (mostly minor). For example in this case, what happened to all those millions of dollars? I still wonder if these "quickie" endings aren't a function of announcing new books and delivery dates many, many months in advance and then publishers/PR folks pushing authors into artificially ending the book quickly to "meet the deadline." I am willing to wait if a deadline is missed.