In this murder mystery thriller, the Pennsylvanian lawyer/author relates the complex story of a U.S. army orthopod, (referred to as a podiatrist) in Afghanistan whose wife dies at home, leaving a infant. That is not the murder, but her friend and confiant is later stabbed to death. As usual in such books, the motive, and the identity of the perpetrator is at first obscure.
A very long emotionally-charged custody court battle, a opiate addicted would-be father, PTSD, alcohol abuse, a disabled veteran, more than one sordid secret affair, and a late-developing romance round out the complexity, with resolution of all the issues only in the last few pages. Nothing is as it seems on first presentation, but to be fair, all the issues are wrapped up in the end.
The female voices seem appallingly foreign and male in the dialogue of the audiobook.
This is not my favorite genre, and this one has even more soppy pathos than most, but for fans of the genre, this may be as good any.
3/5
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