After Anna

After Anna

Adult mystery
"Noah wished he could run time backwards, undo every decision
until this moment. He'd made so many mistakes. His life had exploded
like a strip of firecrackers at a barbeque, igniting the patio
furniture and spreading to the house until everything was blazing out
of control, engulfed in a massive fireball.
His entire world destroyed.
It had all started with Anna."
Noah had a wonderful life. After losing his first wife to
cancer, he was happily married to Maggie. She was a real mother to
his son, Caleb.
There was only one sadness: Anna, Maggie's daughter by a
previous marriage. When Maggie had been hospitalized for postpartum
psychosis after Anna's birth ex husband Florian had had her declared
unfit as a parent. She constantly yearns for the child she hasn't
seen in sixteen years.
Then all that changes. Florian dies in a plane crash. Anna
asks if she can leave the boarding school where she feels like a
misfit and come live with Maggie. For Maggie this is a dream come
true...
...for Noah, not so much. He makes every effort to welcome Anna
into the family. But while Maggie and Anna bond seemingly
effortlessly, he can never do the right thing. Anna seems to think he
doesn't want her there. But she also insinuates that he wants her in
an entirely inappropriate way.
When she turns up dead he's the prime suspect.
After Anna is a terse and chilling court drama that continues to
deliver plot twists even after the jury delivers its verdict. It's
Lisa Scottoline at her best.
Mystery lovers, you are in for a treat.
On a purrrsonal note, yesterday was a challenging day for me. It was
the first anniversary of the day I saw Joey cat take his last breath
and Eugene and I buried him, the day I had to start to adjust to life
without my best little friend for the first time in sixteen years.
Under nonpandemic situations I would have working or at least on
campus with friends. Sheltering at home, although the most
responsible thing to do, was not where I wanted to be. You know?
A great big shout out goes out to Joey who filled sixteen years of my
life with unconditional love and loyalty and lives on in my heart.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway



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