Distortion

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A husband’s lies can have deadly consequences.
 
When Juliet Cole’s husband of fifteen years is murdered before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting.  Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning, then returns home to break the tragic news to her sons.  But a threatening voicemail escalates this from a random shooting to a planned, deliberate attack.
 
Juliet realizes that she and her children are in danger too—unless she meets the killers’ demands.  But as she and her sisters untangle the clues, her husband’s dark secrets come to light.  The more she learns, the more her life is dismantled.  Was her husband an innocent victim or a hardened criminal?

Review

This book reminded me of the Nancy Drew novels I used to devour when I was younger.  Every chapter ended on a cliff-hanger, practically “forcing” me to read the next one to get a resolution, only to end up reading the next chapter, and the next…until before I knew it, the novel was over, and I could finally pry my tense fingers off the page and breathe normally again.
 
Distortion was very much like those Nancy Drew mysteries, where nearly every chapter ends on a climax, and it was so hard to stop reading!  The story was fast-paced, packed with action, and so many twists and turns to keep you guessing.  Even the last chapter ended on a climatic note, causing me to search the author’s website for the publication date for book #3 (March, 2015!).  I would highly recommend this read for the suspense lovers out there!


POSTSCRIPT: This book is actually #2 in the “Moonlighters” series.  I don’t normally read books out of order, but it just happened that way with Distortion.  Throughout this novel, there were a lot of references to what happened previously in the characters’ lives, and while I was able to navigate through the book with little difficulty, I would recommend reading book #1 (Truth Stained Lies) first as there are some plot spoilers in Distortion. 


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