Family Lies

The fourth nerve-shattering installment of the San Diego Case Files from New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose sees Kit McKittrick’s sister caught in a maelstrom of deadly family secrets.

As an infant, Kit McKittrick’s foster sister Akiko was abandoned at a firehouse. Now 32, Akiko has received an unsettling phone call from a woman who says that she knew her birth mother but refuses to divulge any details except in person. Akiko is nervous but also thrilled at the prospect of finally learning about her blood relations.

Kit has a bad feeling about this and insists on accompanying Akiko to meet the woman. Sure enough, as they stand on Mary Sherman’s doorstep, shots are fired and Kit is hit...and inside the house is a corpse: Mary Sherman herself.

Although she’s on medical leave and forbidden to work the case, Kit cannot rest. With police psychologist Sam Reeves, she undertakes a covert investigation into the mysterious Mary Sherman. Was she Akiko’s birth mother? Why did she reach out after all these years? And who had a motive to kill her?

As more bodies pile up, Kit starts to put together the pieces of the frightening puzzle that is Akiko’s birth family, and she’ll come to wonder whether some secrets should stay buried after all.

Chaotic

I remembered the previous book in this series' ending and I was clearly anticipating the next book to address Wren's death. I was disappointed because that was not the case. The relationship between Kit & Sam is insufferable. The characters are both in their 30s and the relationship sounds like 2 preteens tripping over themselves, grow up, already.
Akiko's story, while it could have been interesting, was told in a chaotic manner with so many characters it was difficult to follow and story required backing up often for 2 reasons. #1 Boring
#2 to many characters.
On the plus side: No porn..thank goodness.

Disappointed

Too many characters. Too hard to follow. Couldn’t wait for this book to come out. So disappointed