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When Jane discovers that Sophia’s murder was linked to a hit-and-run that happened months previously, she is even more unsettled about the case. Eine selbstgerechte Wichtigmacherin - ich fand es furchtbar anstrengend, das zu lesen und hätte ihr am liebsten zugerufen "shut up and mind your own business". I'm a long-time fan of Gerritsen and this Rizzoli and Isles series but the last few books just haven't had the same innovative darkness as the earlier ones and I'm afraid there's just too much cosiness about this one for my tastes. With Jane and Maura tied up in their own investigations, Angela feels she may have to take things into her own hands which could put her in danger. Her daughter and the police department dismiss her as a busybody, but Angela is sure there is something sinister going on and begins her own ameteur investigation, little realising the danger she is walking into…"That was the burden of working in homicide; you are always too late to change the victim's fate.
With a teenaged daughter who randomly disappears, Angela wonders of there is something going on behind closed doors, but she is shunned away by the family and Detective Rizzoli as well. Their enquiries lead them to Amy Antrim, a young student seriously injured in a hit and run accident months before, whose father is an acquaintance of Maura’s. I detested the Angela character, don’t waste your time with it, which is sad as I was looking forward to it.
After appearing in the majority of the other books, but only via Jane’s and other character’s thoughts and opinions, it was wonderful to finally be given Angela Rizzoli’s first person POV.
It almost broke the concentration every time mother got involved but as the story continued you could feel where it was headed.Despite an absence of a number of years I found it easy to step back into Rizzoli and Isles’ world, the characters feeling like old friends. Jane Rizzoli, Maura Isles and Angela Rizzoli feel like old friends, all three strong women with fascinating backstories, identifiable and likeable, despite their various foibles. This gets her into a lot of trouble mostly because she is so convinced that no one listens to her suspicions, and eventually she acts on them. Gerritsen does a great job keeping her protagonists going and pushing through a new and curious case, with an added amateur sleuth in the form of Jane’s mother, Angela, working her own investigation. Thank you to the author, NetGalley and Random House Publishing - Ballantine for my advanced copy in exchange for my always-honest review and for introducing Angela, the mom we are all kinda lucky to have as we get older.
There are no immediate motives for the crime, but when Rizzoli discovers that Suarez was guarding a dangerous secret, everything changes. It seems that there is something suspicious about the new neighbors who have moved in across the street. If you see something, say something,” Angela says, explaining how being the mother of a homicide detective has made it “second nature for me to keep an eye on my own neighborhood. Jane, her partner Barry Frost, Medical Examiner Maura Isles, and Angela Rizzoli will, mark my words, get to the bottom of everything.I wanted to read it all in one sitting, but, unfortunately, life got in the way and I had to do it over two days.
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