Delusion: A Novel of Suspense (edition 2008)

When new evidence surfaces, Nell sets out to determine if she sent the wrong man to prison and what part her husband had in the process. another suspenseful page-turner ( )

I thought this book had promise: set in a small Louisiana city after a hurricane; a man is freed after 20 years incarceration based on a mistaken eyewitness identification; the eyewitness happens to be married to the (now) police chief who originally investigated the crime, the murder of her then boyfriend (and father of her then unborn child). It had all kinds of great, juicy potential. But a more predictable telling of this story, I do not think I can imagine. The bad guys have "bad guy" written all over them from their first appearances. The heroine is a total irritant. The freed convict starts out intriguing enough, but quickly regresses into a whiner like everyone else. The author did not really do anything with the post-hurricane setting (just had the characters complaining about the residual stench) and then at the end threw in the idea that maybe there were some racial issues going on (oh, what a wild thought: the possibility of racial conflict in Louisiana).

I am sure you have other things on your reading list. ( )

Super book. Great read.

Pleasant story about a woman who has to revisit the murder of her fiancee (and her child's father) nearly 20 years ago. The man found guilty was released and the heroine realises that hr happy life is not as straightforwards as it seems. ( )

A woman married to the police chief of a coastal Louisiana town begins to wonder if anything in her life is what it seems when the man who was locked up for her first husband's murder is exonerated. Abrahams is a solid writer and there are elements that could make for an interesting story - the community has not yet recovered from a hurricane that has exposed some of the inequality and the corruption in the town - but somehow it doesn't come together. The ending in particular feels half-hearted and unfinished.