Gone in the Night (Annalisa Vega #5)
Another winning entry in the Annalisa Vega series, Book 5 takes us into a topic that may be triggering for some readers: domestic abuse. The book opens with the first victim - lawyer Cyrus Merriman - being led unsuspectingly to his death by a mystery woman whose idea of a lakeside walk ends up with his body in it. Jump thirteen years later and a now pregnant Annalisa is visiting her imprisoned brother Alex who introduces her to the person convicted of his death, a man named Joe Green. When Joe shows Annalisa an anonymous note he received claiming the sole witness who put him behind bars lied, she agrees to take his case, but there’s one wrinkle: her husband - detective Nick Carelli - is the one whose investigation put him in prison. Things are about to get very awkward between these two! The story leads us to a women’s shelter run by a woman named Charlotte Higgins who, along with her two employees Layla and Karma, is clearly holding secrets that connect her to Joe’s ex, Van...
