Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline

Don't Go by Lisa Scottoline  

An interesting murder/mystery set in modern times. It made a nice change as I have been reading lots of early 20^th century novels lately.

The tale tells of a young doctor Mike Scanlon who is serving in Afghanistan with the reserves.

While he is there, his wife Chloe dies under mysterious circumstances. In fact the book starts off with scenes of her dying. You get a hint that something else besides an accident has happened.

This leaves their very young baby Emily at home without a mom but her Chloe's sister Danielle and husband step in gladly to help out by caring for the baby and seem just a bit too willing to do so for even longer than Mike really wants.

After some horrific battle encounters, the doctor returns home and tries to solve all the mysteries surrounding his wife's death and the death of her best friend Sara who is murdered.

Dr. Mike inadvertently gets into trouble with the police ,drugs are involved and then even more trouble erupts with him trying to regain custody of the child.

This is a mystery that isn't solved until the very end of the book.

It was very readable but the characters were not very well defined and the events didn't flow very easily.

This was not a book I felt I had to keep reading but I eventually finished it as I had a call from the library.
My time is up!