First off, this book has been given in my view an unnecessary grounding in the pandemic, so we are given little bits now and again to let you know that is when it is set, wearing masks, social distancing, vaccines etc. But it in no way ever feels like it is part of the story and more like it has been shoehorned in afterwards, it doesn't affect anything that happens.
After the quite dramatic opening of the paedophile abuse of the babysitter (i was not expecting that), then the murder of the abuser we jump forward in time to one of the sisters who has made something of herself and done her best to forget all about that night. But that night is about to come crashing back in a big way when she discovers her new client is none other than the grown up boy she used to babysit - the son of the man she murdered all those years ago and got away with, he has been accused of rape and fired his previous council to hire his old babysitter.
He drops a little hint that he might know more than he is letting on about what happened that night, and this begins the spiral of her trying to protect her sister while going through the motions of defending this potential monster for a crime she believes him to be guilty of. He gets house arrest with an ankle monitor while they wait to go to trial and it conveniently goes off for hours at a time when other crimes takes place - which she thinks again are all about him. The crimes seem to escalate in their viciousness and she believes it is only a matter of time before he kills but doesn't know how to stop him.
The other sister has led a completely different life - after the abuse and murder her life spirals into one of drug abuse, and we are given quite a lot of details into her drug habits and just what it does to a person. She has never gotten over that night, and we are taken back to it quite frequently throughout the book, but she starts to realise it wasn't quite what she remembered, it was even worse. So that doesn't help her soberiety.
The monster threatens both sisters that he has evidence of what they did, so they seem to be stuck, they can't turn him in, and the sister has to defend him from the rape case, or he will expose them both by releasing the video of that fateful night.
It is a bit of a rollercoaster with an almost predictable ending, that while decent enough didn't really feel like more than 3.5 stars for me.
After the quite dramatic opening of the paedophile abuse of the babysitter (i was not expecting that), then the murder of the abuser we jump forward in time to one of the sisters who has made something of herself and done her best to forget all about that night. But that night is about to come crashing back in a big way when she discovers her new client is none other than the grown up boy she used to babysit - the son of the man she murdered all those years ago and got away with, he has been accused of rape and fired his previous council to hire his old babysitter.
He drops a little hint that he might know more than he is letting on about what happened that night, and this begins the spiral of her trying to protect her sister while going through the motions of defending this potential monster for a crime she believes him to be guilty of. He gets house arrest with an ankle monitor while they wait to go to trial and it conveniently goes off for hours at a time when other crimes takes place - which she thinks again are all about him. The crimes seem to escalate in their viciousness and she believes it is only a matter of time before he kills but doesn't know how to stop him.
The other sister has led a completely different life - after the abuse and murder her life spirals into one of drug abuse, and we are given quite a lot of details into her drug habits and just what it does to a person. She has never gotten over that night, and we are taken back to it quite frequently throughout the book, but she starts to realise it wasn't quite what she remembered, it was even worse. So that doesn't help her soberiety.
The monster threatens both sisters that he has evidence of what they did, so they seem to be stuck, they can't turn him in, and the sister has to defend him from the rape case, or he will expose them both by releasing the video of that fateful night.
It is a bit of a rollercoaster with an almost predictable ending, that while decent enough didn't really feel like more than 3.5 stars for me.