Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction and media frenzy, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie is a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job, just trying to survive out of the spotlight.
Edie also has adisturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of Lilith's victims.She's desperate to discover how they've managed-or failed-to move on, andwhether they've fared better than her. She's been careful to keep her distance,until the day one of them is found murdered and she quickly becomes the primesuspect. Edie remembers nothing of the night of the death, and must get to thetruth before the police-or the real killer-find her.
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[Eileen Dresden is blond, harried](TitanBooks, 2 October 2018, first published 4 September 2018, ebook, 321 pages, copyfrom publisher and voluntarily reviewed)
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I had high hopes for this book after enjoying TheBlackbird Season so much. I thought this was a great book and I've becomequite a fan. The book is so well written and so plausible I felt I was readinga true crime story. The book reminds me a lot of Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land.That's a good thing. Edie is a great character. I completely sympathised withher. She finds life hard as the daughter of a convicted serial killer. She isnothing like her mother but people judge her, often harshly, as if just waitingfor her to become her mother. This is unfair at times and made me mad. I didfind her obsession with the families of her mother's victims a bit disturbingand unsettling. I was shocked by how quickly she becomes a suspect when tragedystrikes but her behaviour at times was disturbing. Another great read. I lookforward to reading more by this author.
