If you haven’t read any of Allen Eskens’ books you need to put him on your to-read list.
This book will draw you in and hook you. Lila Nash is an intern to a lawyer in the Hennepin County Attorney’s office. She is put on a case of an attempted rape/murder of a young woman. The account is a personal to Lila as she is a victim of rape.
This story is broke into separate points of view. Lila, Gavin the suspect, and the detectives. Each tells their story moving the case as the reader is pulled along. The reader is told what and who committed the crime, the meticulous measures to hide the evidence and the slow unraveling of those clues.
Lila becomes personally involved in this case which drives her to dig deeper into her past. What can she do to help find this serial rapist or murderer? Allen knows how to manipulate the reader by arranging the chapters so the reader is taken from one person to the next.
Please put this book on your reading list as well as all his other books which are equally as good. Start with The Life We Bury, which introduces us to Joe Peyton and his neighbor Lila Nash.
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