This was generally well written but had a few lapses. The pace and plot were good. The characters played their roles adequately. ( )

Chloe Fine, an intern with the FBI Evidence Response Team, finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation in which her troubled twin sister, Danielle, is the prime suspect. As she and her FBI mentor, Agent Kyle Greene investigate, Chloe must face the dark and troubled past of her mother’s death some seventeen years earlier.

This narrative fails to build tension and doesn’t provide the reader with much in the way of suspense. The mostly unlikable characters spend a great deal of time making less-than-believable choices, and the entire plot lacks credibility. Once readers get past the implausibility of an intern actually investigating a case in which her sister is a suspect, there’s the sending of a suspect to prison because she appears to have committed a crime. Before any formal charges are brought against her, she’s hustled off to prison? Law enforcement simply does not work that way in the United States.

And then there’s the tired, frustrating, overused good twin/bad twin trope that needs to be retired forever. Every reader who also happens to be a twin cringes whenever this scenario pops up in a book, usually because most writers have absolutely no idea of what it’s actually like to be a twin and they don’t begin to understand the relationship and how twins interact with each other.

Story and plot points aside, there’s a desperate need for someone to edit . . . Greene often becomes Green; Steven becomes Martin in one conversation before morphing back to Steven in that very same conversation; present tense sneaks into a long piece written in past tense; plural noun/singular verb sentences keep popping up . . . these, and so much more, all work together to pull the reader out of a story that fails to deliver on so many levels.

This is the first in a series of Chloe Fine stories; hopefully, some reality will edge its way into the telling of future tales. ( )

If you read other books from Blake Pierce, you will not be disappointed with this one. The story tell us about the relation of twin sisters that had their mother misteriously murdered when they were 10 and saw their father being arrested for the crime. They grew apart, Chloe choosing an FBI career and Danielle getting lost with her choices in life. Seventeen years later they reunited again when Chloe returns to her home town. But then life turns upside down when Danielle's boyfriend is found dead. The book is full of completely unexpected twists and you will read it at the edge of your chair. It is Blake Pierce at his best! Another masterpiece of suspense and mystery.
I highly recommend it to the permanent library of all readers that appreciate an excellent thriller, full of psychological suspense and with a completely unexpected ending that you would never imagine. This is the first book of what promises to be another excellent series. I can hardly wait to read the sequel of this book. ( )