Booklist Reviews
Maya Burkett, an ex-military pilot whose PTSD and nightmares still torment her, has come home to her husband and two-year-old daughter only to see her husband murdered before her eyes. A nanny cam allows the grieving widow some peace of mind while she's at work, until she checks the video and sees her husband with their daughter. Could he still be alive? Spurred to investigate, Maya takes matters—and justice—into her own hands. LaVoy's smart narration sets up this unpredictable story. A host of villains plays on Maya's grief and insecurities, and LaVoy's depiction of them adds to listeners' uncertainty about whom and what to believe. The edgy intensity of LaVoy's voice adds credibility to the flawed heroine's determined thoughts and decisive actions. LaVoy's expressive reading underlines the growing sense of menace that pervades this emotional and cinematic story, filled with myriad plots twists guaranteed to keep listeners riveted. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
Publishers Weekly Reviews
In his new thriller, a seemingly unsolvable puzzle isn't so unsolvable. Two weeks after witnessing her husband, Joe, murdered in Central Park, retired special-ops Army Captain Maya Stern consults her newly installed nanny cam and sees Joe enter their living room with their two-year-old daughter. Is it possible Joe survived? Is she losing her mind? Is someone trying to fool her? (The title gives that last one away.) The question becomes, who's trying to fool her, and why? Reader LaVoy does a masterly job of ginning up genuine suspense and adding much-needed heft to characters so gossamer they threaten to blow off the page. The author did make his protagonist, Maya, fully dimensional, but it's LaVoy's impassioned enactment of her trials and tribulations that makes the listener care what happens to her. A Dutton hardcover. (Mar.)
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