Review – Falls to Pieces by Doug Corleone
Synopsis
A mother and daughter in hiding are threatened by more than secrets and lies in a twisting novel of paranoia, revenge, and psychological suspense by bestselling author Douglas Corleone.
For two years, Kati Dawes and her teenage daughter, Zoe, have lived off the grid in Hawai‘i, hiding from a past Kati must forget as if her life depends on it. New names. Anonymous online presence. So far, safe. Until Kati’s fiancé, attorney Eddie Akana, disappears along a popular hiking trail in a Maui national park. Now all eyes are on Kati. Exposure can make a woman with so many secrets very paranoid.
Eddie’s law partner, Noah Walker, is doing everything he can to protect his new client from the press that’s hovering like a vulture and the authorities whose suspicions about Kati—and the disappearance—are rising. Then suddenly, Zoe goes missing as well. Kati will risk anything to find her. But the worst is still to come. Because Kati’s not the only one with secrets. And buried among them is a twist she never saw coming.
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Review
Just when I thought I had everything figured out…BAM…plot twist!
Kati and Zoe are in hiding, but we aren’t sure exactly why, at least not at first. The author doles out the answers in small doses throughout the whole book. Kati is embroiled in a fight to stay ahead of the police after her boyfriend is found murdered. Did Kati do it? If not, who did?
I felt like Kati was not a reliable narrator or character. She was emotionally and verbally abused as a child and even in her marriage, which had an impact on her thought process. It is revealed at different times that Kati tended to get drunk and take pills. Was she avoiding life or trying to forget her past?
The story is fast-paced and action-packed. There is a lot to unpack to uncover the truth, but it makes for an engaging read.
We give this book 4 paws up.
About the Author
Douglas Corleone is the international bestselling author of Gone Cold, Payoff, and Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Equation, as well as the acclaimed Kevin Corvelli novels, the Simon Fisk international thrillers, and the stand-alone courtroom drama The Rough Cut. Corleone’s debut novel, One Man’s Paradise, won the 2009 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and was a finalist for the 2011 Shamus Award for Best First Novel. A former New York City criminal defense attorney, Corleone now resides in Honolulu, where he works on his next novel.
