The book opens with a mother witnessing the hit and run death of her five year old son. Detective Ray Stevens is charged with finding the driver, head of a three person team, including the veteran Stumpy and a trainee, Kate. The second chapter, interestingly, is told from the point of view what we assume is the boy's mother, Jenna Gray. She is clearly devastated, wants nothing more than to get away from all the attention surrounding the hit and run, and is haunted by the image of the young boy on the windshield of the car. She escapes to a seaside village without notifying Ray and his team, to a small cottage. We learn about her and grow to like her in chapters alternating with Ray's search for the driver, his difficulties with his wife Maggs and their son Tom, In fact, I found Jenna's chapters more interesting than those of the police.
At the end of the first part, Ray has a break through and identifies the driver. The second half of the book deals with the questioning of the driver, a woman who admits her guilt and her trial. We also learn about her life in chapters narrated by her husband. I know it seems a bit strange to have her husband narrate the story of their falling in love and eventual marriage. If you read the book, you will understand why this works. By the end, things get a little coincidental like most endings to a 'who done it' novel, but I liked it, an easy, fast read.
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