RATING:OKAY
SPOILERS!!!
The book lost intensity in the last part, and I found the resolution confusing and over the top.
The crucial point which was supposed to be the premiere of the play ends up in tragedy. At some point the character played by Carolina says 'And the killer is...', and then a shoot rings out and Carolina falls. The young woman is rushed to hospital, and the police find themselves in a chaos as the person who shot the girl is not apprehended.
After that, Betsy, Jesse and Derek follow too many leads until they reach the real culprit, and in my opinion the starting crime was based on a preposterous dealing. The criminal turns out to Michael Bird, and he almost kills Betsy, but thankfully, Jesse and Derk get to her in time. Michael claims to have been a victim of the real culprit, but the pressure of the police makes him confess. What we discover is that Mayor Brown and Tennnenbaum reached an agreement; the mayor would kill the man who made Tennenbaum's life hell, and Tennenbaum would kill the person who was a threat to the mayor. Tennenbaum and Michael were in the same position; Jeremiah Fold was their common enemy; the man was blackmailing Tennenbaum, and in Michael's case, he was one of his slaves and had Miranda under his thumb. Tennenbaum and Mayor Brown exchanged the names of the people they wanted rid of using books in Cody's bookshop. The mayor killed Fold when he pushed him off the road. The mayor's enemy was Meghan, who had discovered that he was corrupt, so she kept reminding him. Tennenbaum was supposed to kill Meghan, but he was in the theatre, building his alibi, so Michael was the one who would kill Meghan. Michael didn't know that the mayor was the man who Tennenbaum had reached the agreement with, so after killing Meghan he saw the mayor's son at the window, he went there and killed the whole family. It was later that Tennenbaum told him that it was the mayor who had asked him to kill Meghan.
When Stephanie started to investigate, Michael got nervous and afraid, so he killed her, and he also killed Cody because he thought he may have remembered the thing about the books. I think this part is not believable. If the mayor and Tennenbaum had talked face to face about killing someone, why did they have to resort to that strange method in the books?
In the epilogue we discover that Carolina survived and she is now studying at university. Jesse and Betsy are now a couple. In the book we learnt that Natasha died after the accident when they were racing after Tennenbaum, and the two cars fell into the river. Tennenbaum died, and Natasha did as well when Derek went to save his friend. It has taken Jesse twenty years to get on with life. And Dana has opened the restaurant, called Natasha.
An intense book which disappointed me at the end.
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