Author: Adam Mitzner
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Genre: Mystery, Legal Thriller
Source: Thomas & Mercer
Goodreads: Ella Broden is living a double life.
By day, Ella works as a buttoned-up attorney on some of the city’s most grueling cases. By night, she pursues her passion for singing in the darkest clubs of Manhattan.
No one knows her secret, not even Charlotte, the younger sister she practically raised. But it seems she’s not the only one in the family with something to hide. When Charlotte announces she’s sold her first novel, Ella couldn’t be more thrilled…until she gets a call that her sister’s gone missing.
Ella starts investigating with the help of Detective Gabriel Velasquez, an old flame in the NYPD, and what she finds is shocking. If art imitates life, then her sister’s novel may contain details of her real-life affairs. And any one of her lovers could be involved in her disappearance.
Desperate to bring Charlotte home, Ella works through her list of suspects, matching fictitious characters with flesh-and-blood men. But will it be too late to save the sister she only thought she knew?
Ope’s Opinion: If you enjoy legal thrillers, you might want to read this one. Some of the legal talk and explanations were a little tedious for me. Other then that it was a quick read and the story line kept moving.
A book in a book is not my favorite way to get information or learn about a character. Charlotte’s life in the book just seemed too graphic for my taste. Charlotte’s story leading her sister to the killer was too neatly wrapped up.
