Description from Amazon:
Long ago, Carl Feldman was acquitted of
murder.
Now he’s an old man, living alone with his
fading memories.
His daughter has come to see him, to take
him on a trip.
Only she’s not his daughter, and if she has
her way, he’s not coming back . . .
This woman is sure Carl’s a murderer, and
that he’s killed others - including her sister Rachel.
And she will stop at nothing to find out
the truth.
This description really caught my eye and I
wondered how on earth she would get this right.
So after years of putting together clues,
pictures, and making plans about finding out whether Carl killed her sister,
our protagonist manages to convince the woman in charge of the halfway house
Carl is at to let him out for a short road trip. Carl has dementia and has lost
some of the use of one of his arms. She figures that on this road trip if she
takes him to places where his other possible victims may be and align them with
pictures from his photography book it may stir his memory and help him to
reveal what happened to her sister. What is not said but implied is that Carl
is not coming back.
The trip starts off well but you get the
feeling that Carl’s faculties are not that confused and that his arm works
better than he claims it does. He asks for a list of “must haves” on the trip
and these begin to look suspiciously like tools one would use to murder and then
bury the body.
The first couple of stops yield no clues
even though she seems to be picking up more about Carl, but he also seems to be
one step ahead of each decision she thinks she has made in advance. The trip
meanders a bit and gets a bit boring but it’s interesting to see how she tried
to bring the victims’ places together and how he justified his photos each
time.
The ending kinda threw me. It’s one of
those that comes out at you from left field where there were no clues sprinkled
throughout to support it. There are plenty of action scenes and enough places
where I wondered if the plan was futile and exactly who was not coming back.
Overall it was a good book and well written;
it was just the ending that let it down.
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