Publisher: Harper Collins Canada, May 10, 2022

Format: paperback

Pages: 304

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Publisher: Harper Collins Canada, May 10, 2022

Format: paperback

Pages: 304

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter story—one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it—that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally bestselling author of The Scholar and The Ruin.

First Rule: Make them like you.

Second Rule: Make them need you.

Third Rule: Make them pay.

They think I’m a young, idealistic law student, that I’m passionate about reforming a corrupt and brutal system.

They think I’m working hard to impress them.

They think I’m here to save an innocent man on death row.

They’re wrong. I’m going to bury him. 

My Review:

Thank you Harper Collins Canada for the copy of the book!
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Read if you like: murder mystery/ law school and courtroom drama.
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Hannah leaves her entire life to move to Virginia and work with the innocence project there, but not for reasons you would think. Hannah wants to work on a specific case that her mother seems to have a connection to the person on death row.
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The book seemed very dramatic and a couple things happened that seemed like it was put in for the drama but I couldn’t put this down and I wanted to keep reading to the end. I don’t read a ton of mystery books (I usually listen to them) so maybe that’s why I just enjoyed the fast pace of the plot! Overall I enjoyed it!
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CW: death, violence, sexual harassment and assault, imprisonment, death row, manipulation and alcoholism