RATING: OKAY
SPOILERS!!!!
I found the last part of the novel far-fetched and the plot turns out to be implausible.
The even that precipitates the end of the novel is when Melanie kills William. When he spots Cheney watching him, he thinks that Harper has betryed him, so he goes to the house and starts looking through his papers. Melanie hears some noise and goes there, expecting to fin her father but it is William. He is like crazy and even hits her, and at some point he produces a gun and as he and Melanie fight, she grabs the gun and shoots him. Melanie panics and runs away.
Melanie calls David, telling him about William. She is very angry with him and says that she is going to disappear. When David goes to the house, the police are there and also the Stokes. Patricia is shocked, but Harper surprisingly blames his daughter.
Melanie decides to travel to Houston, and David realises that it is in Houston where Melanie must be, and he finds her in the prison museum. The two of them go to talk to the midwife who attended to Lee's wife during labour, and the woman surprises them when she tells them that Lee's child was a son, not a daughter. This means that Melanie is not Russell Lee's daughter.
For some reason everybody ends up in Houston in the street where there is the house where the Stokes used to live. Patricia, who has left Harper, is there with Ann Margaret, Jamie appears too, and Harper and Brian. They all end up in some forest where Harper threatens to shoot Jamie. The truth comes out. Melanie is actually Meagan. Harper worked out everything. They would pretend that Meagan had been kidnapped and killed to claim the money from the life insurance. Jamie helped and kept Meagan with him, even taking her to London. Then they thought that Meagan should reappear, and they talked to Lee so that he confessed to the crime, and they promised to look after his child, that is, William. The reality is that Meagan was not Harper's daughter, but Jamie's. And it is Jamie who sent the notes and phoned Digger because he wanted the truth to be known. And Harper hired a killer to kill Digger and Melanie.
Harper shoots Jamie and kills him, and as he is about to shoot Melanie, Brian knocks him with a strong branch.
The epilogue happens a year later. Harper is in prison, and David has finished the investigation, so he and Melanie can finally be together in the open.
The novel was interesting at the beginning, but then as things were revealed, I found the whole thing to far-fetched to enjoy.
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