Dr. Noah Alderman, a pediatrician, is being charged with
assault and murder to his step-daughter Anna. Despite
those charges, Dr. Noah denies doing anything to Anna and
continues to stick to his tale, no matter how outlandish
it seems to the jury and the judge, and despite the
evidence proving his guilt. As he awaits the verdict from
the jury, the reader begins the journey through Noah's
memories and that of Maggie's, his wife who is torn
between her new and old family in this riveting and
complex tale of lies, secrets and heart pounding action
that will keep the reader turning pages long into the
night.
For a long time, Maggie and Noah were a happily married
couple raising Noah's son Caleb. But one day, Maggie gets
a call she has always dreamed of; her estranged daughter
Anna from her first marriage wants to connect to her.
Upon learning that Anna's father and his family has
passed away from a plane accident, Maggie and Noah make a
choice to invite Anna to live with them, and its a
decision that will shatter everything the family holds
dear, for Anna is not what she seems.
Parceling out details and clues like breadcrumbs in
Hansel and Gretel throughout AFTER ANNA, Lisa Scottoline
is good at keeping the reader reading past their planned
time, to when finishing this haunting and enjoyable tale
becomes far more important than any other chores or
duties.
The storyline of AFTER ANNA itself is riveting,
mysterious and there are twists and turns everywhere,
places where senses cannot be trusted. What I enjoyed
most about the story is the tension, the characters and
how frightening the story is. The tension is taut as a
whip ready to lash out, and its merciless on its
audience. Lisa Scottoline seems also prescient when it
comes to writing the tale because the clues and twists
are not where one would expect them, and as the action
moves on along, the audience becomes loath to stop and
smell the roses. Although both Maggie and Noah tell the
tale of Anna, there are missing pieces about Anna that
don't come together until the very end of the book, and
the reader does wonder what is true or what are lies
during this roller-coaster ride.
For a mind-blowing tale about family, secrets and lies
where it's a matter of life or death in being right, AFTER
ANNA by Lisa Scottoline should be right up the alley.
From theNew York Times bestselling author, a
riveting novel of suspense and emotional justice.
Nobody cuts deeper than family...
Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has
remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the
first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy.
Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since
she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more
overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a
mother to the child she thought she'd lost forever, her only
daughter Anna.
Maggie and Noah know that having Anna around will change
their lives, but they would never have guessed that
everything would go wrong, and so quickly. Anna turns out to
be a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under
their rules, though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter
back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble brewing
in a once-perfect marriage and home.
Events take a heartbreaking turn when Anna is murdered and
Noah is accused and tried for the heinous crime. Maggie must
face not only the devastation of losing her daughter, but
the realization that Anna's murder may have been at the
hands of a husband she loves. In the wake of this tragedy,
new information drives Maggie to search for the truth,
leading her to discover something darker than she could have
ever imagined.
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