Lisa Scottoline wrote in her Acknowledgements - A novel doesn't connect unless it's emotionally true, and when it's emotionally true and does connect, it rings true for everyone because that's the way it is with truth, it strikes a chord in you. And so it is with this enjoyable novel, Come Home (2012), which questions whether one ever stops being a mother, or an ex-stepmother, and whether there are limits to love in any family at all.
Paperback: There's no escape from your past.
Jill had married William Skyler for all the right reasons: love and the hope that she was making a family for her daughter, Megan, as well as his two girls. But her husband's devastating betrayal ripped their marriage apart and she and Megan lost everything.
Now, years later, her ex-stepdaughter Abby shows up on her doorstep drunk and distraught with the news of her father's death.
Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few enquiries and discovers that things don't add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life.
Yet Jill can't turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own.
About the author: Lisa Scottoline is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author. She has thirty million copies of her books in print in the United States, and she has been published in thirty-two countries. She has written eleven legal thrillers and all of her novels draw on her experience as a trial lawyer. In each of her books, her goal is to write something that's true, true in the emotional sense. She teaches a course called Justice & Fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array of disobedient pets, and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Rating: 3/5
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