And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls: Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one, the three of them opposites but also deeply intertwined. Also, what was up with Daniel sitting in the dark waiting for Chloe to come home and her not realizing from the video footage that he never left? The nightmare finally ended when her own father confessed to the killings, upending her childhood and leaving her family in ruins. I would say the main strong points of this book are the compelling premise and a mostly solidly plotted-out mystery. Overwhelmed, Chloe takes another pill and recounts her father’s decision to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.

Not sure what that says about me, but not something I'm really all that interested in unpacking right now either. Now, 20 years later, Chloe is working as a psychiatrist in Baton Rouge and is recently engaged to her fiancée Daniel Briggs. But, in this perfect moment, the benzos have steadied her hands, and she shoots that dumb fucker reporter lover murderer right in the fatal spot. I think with the right setup maybe I could have bought it, but either way it’s definitely a weak point in the plot. Just say that Cooper killed her since she was a bad influence on his sister or cause he just wanted to and be done with it.In present day, Chloe agrees to talk to Aaron Jansen, a reporter from the New York Times who has been contacting Chloe lately about a story he's writing about the 20th anniverary of the Breaux Bridge murders. As she feels too much, her brother who is 3 years older than her chose to feel nothing, turning into a stone hearted man keeping everything to himself, doing everything to protect her sister and their mother is already a lost case, committing suicide after her husband’s verdict, living in oblivion. Bert had an affair with her mother and harassed her family after her father’s arrest and now lives in Baton Rouge. This all leads to bad decisions, faulty assumptions, and a sense of more danger and death to come, with no way to stop it. Now, 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist and although suffering from her childhood trauma, she is trying to move forward in her life, although, unfortunately, with the help of alcohol and pills.

Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer? But you’re in need of a good thriller with a complex — and deeply twisted — female lead, consider Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild instead, due out in April 2022. If you’re someone who likes to “figure out” murder mysteries before the killer is revealed, this one might be a good pick for you.Stacy Willingham tells us that psychological novels are not just for entertainment but also for education. It turns out their father found all the jewelry hidden under his floorboards but Cooper convinced him not to say anything.