Short description
Kerry McGrath is a successful prosecuting attorney, and after seeing two women in plastic surgery who look remarkably like the victim of the Sweetheart Murder , she starts to ask questions. But someone clearly wants the case kept closed, and Kerry's queries only place her in greater danger.
Long description
When Kerry McGrath - a smart, relentless prosecutor - takes her daughter to see a plastic surgeon following a car accident, she sees a woman in the surgery with a beautiful, hauntingly familiar face. On a subsequent visit, she sees the same face again - on a different woman...Suddenly she remembers: both woman look startlingly like Suzanne Reardon, the Sweetheart Murder victim whose husband, Skip, is now serving a life sentence for that murder. When Kerry starts asking questions, she discovers that just about everyone wants the case kept closed. Still she persists - but what she doesn't know is that it is already too late. Her puzzled queries have triggered a response and she is in great, growing danger.
Review
Why does a plastic surgeon make all his female clients into facial replicas of a murdered woman? Who strewed roses on the corpse? Why does county prosecutor Kerry have those dreadful dreams? Chocolate-box emotions and machinations, guzzle and enjoy. (Kirkus UK)