Hank Phillippi Ryan has done it again. The author of THE
OTHER WOMAN and PRIME TIME is a master at crafting detailed
and suspenseful mysteries, and her new book THE WRONG GIRL
is her best yet.
Newspaper reporter Jane Ryland and her. . . friend. . .
Boston police detective Jake Brogan are both assigned to
look into the shooting death of a young woman with two
children. At the same time, Jane gets a call from a former
coworker saying the woman identified as her former birth
mother can't possibly be the right woman. As the body count
rises, Jane begins to wonder if she's chasing two big
stories -- and if that will make her the killer's next
target.
THE WRONG GIRL is fast-paced, thrilling, nerve-wracking, and
fun.
Ryan has a knack for creating believable characters. They
sound real, act real, and think real, even the one-scene
coffee shop clerks. She throws these characters into
incredibly well-plotted situations, and ends pretty much
every scene with a cliffhanger. It's next to impossible to
put the book down, even when you're on your lunch hour.
I must say, I had a couple of questions that no one in the
book ever asked, questions that might have moved the
investigation along faster. One was answered, eventually,
and turned out to be a major point in the plot. The other
was sort of answered during a confession, as the case was
wrapping up. I kind of wish Jane had thought of those
questions, then found a good excuse for not asking them.
It's a fairly minor nitpick in an otherwise perfect mystery
novel.
THE WRONG GIRL is a terrific read. It has a little bit of
bad language and some sexual tension, but nothing explicit
or graphic. I recommend it to anyone who loves a good
mystery.
The spin-chilling, heart-wrenching suspense novel explores a
terrifying scenario that strikes at the heart of every
family.
Does a respected adoption agency have a frightening secret?
Tipped off by a determined ex-colleague on a desperate quest
to find her birth mother, Boston newspaper reporter Jane
Ryland begins to suspect that the agency is engaging in the
ultimate betrayal—reuniting birth parents with the wrong
children.
For detective Jake Brogan and his partner, a young woman's
brutal murder seems a sadly predictable case of domestic
violence, one that results in two toddlers being shuttled
into the foster care system. Then Jake finds an empty cradle
at the murder scene. Where is the baby who should have been
sleeping there?
It's a trail of twists and turns that takes them deep into
the heart of a foster care system in crisis and threatens to
blow the lid off an adoption agency scandal. With a killer
at large and an infant missing, time is running out...
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