What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

 Jason Bennett chooses to believe in the law, which drove him to own a court reporting business.  He even drives the speed limit.  

One day, out on a drive with his family, wife, daughter, son, and dog, their car is tailgated.  Jason makes the decision to get out and confront the driver.

Big Mistake.

The confrontation results in two deaths followed by the FBI showing up at his home.  Highly suggested by the agents, Jason and his family enter the witness protection program.  their life is left behind and the family begins to unravel, including Jason's marriage.

After an astounding truth is revealed, Jason decides he's the only one that can get the family's life back.  He uses his access to court records and puts the details together and creates a plan.  

The plan isn't full-proof, and his family will never be whole again, but Jason is willing to risk his life and hope for a good outcome.  He has two objectives. First, reveal the "bad guys" and get out of the witness protection program.  Second, love and trust need to be restored in his marriage.  The last item on his list is without a plan.  He doesn't know if his marriage can be salvaged or if he wants it anymore.  Is the love strong enough to get through the trouble created?

Scottoline  is a great suspense author, although I think she could have reduced the first 200 pages to about seventy-five.  Once the story gets to the "astounding truth", the novel speeds along and she's got her groove with the suspense.

Happy reading,

Dawn

Dawn Kunda's Book Review of LOOK AGAIN by Lisa Scottoline

If you love children, Scottoline’s story will keep you trembling as Ellen Gleason doubts the legality of her son’s adoption.

Ellen’s journalistic curiosity peeks when she accidentally notices the postcard for a missing child who has an uncanny resemblance to her three year old adopted son, Will.

The adoption had been all legal and good-so she thought.

As Ellen attempts to dig up information on the missing boy, she also reviews the adoption, although it’s difficult when the attorney she worked with is dead.

Taking time off from the newspaper she writes for, Marcello, her boss, takes a special interest in her neglected work and sleepless eyes.  If she had time for Marcello, she’d bask in his kindness and gentle offers of help.

Instead, Ellen tries to follow the path of Will’s life before she adopted him and only finds dead bodies.

And if it weren’t for Marcello patiently waiting for her need of him, she might become one of them.

Marcello shows great character as the strong and silent type, which plays into Ellen’s stubborn and busy heart.   Even the independent need someone to lean on once in a while. 

Enjoy,

Dawn