Returning home from a basketball game one night with her son and a friend, Jules Hart hits a patch of ice and slides into the lake. Waking underwater in panic and fear, she grabs the hand reaching for hers and escapes to the surface, not realizing that it's not her son until it's too late. Jules descends into grief, not wanting to live without her son, and ends up in a psych hospital. Why does she keep insisting that she killed her son when it was a tragic accident? And why does the other boy, Isaac Greer, insist that he should have been the one to die? When Isaac disappears ten months later, everyone believes it's the serial killer called the Dog Snatcher that's been targeting adolescent boys. All the clues fit...but Isaac's mother Amber believes that Jules knows more about his disappearance than she's telling.
Told in alternating chapters between Jules' sessions with her therapist and Amber's reactions to the accident, her sons grief, and the investigation into his disappearance, I thought the storyline was interesting and unique. The pacing was good, not giving away too much at a time. And the ending was such a shock!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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