Perfect summer fluff that I pretty much read in one sitting like many a Mary Higgins Clark book over the years. Although I figured out the perp fairly early, the twists and turns had me guessing as to whether I was right. This is definitely the most complicated of the stories in the series, but one that really worked.

This is the first of the Under Suspicion titles that I've read since reading Alafair Burke's own series and now I see her touches: specifically Laurie, Leo and Timmy watching Bosch (who Ellie once worked with). I also liked seeing a little more of Leo the cop vs. Leo the father, and happy to see him out of harm's way. Liked the tension and development of the new host.

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One question: the explanation of the vase never gelled with the housekeeper's statements. Even if it was a vase that broke as Casey explained a few days earlier, it still didn't work. I also thought it went on a little past its natural ending point (the arrest), but I think the reason it went beyond was to set up the next title in the series, especially with respect to Alex. I was glad that he wasn't dirty, or complicit, and he was an interesting layer through which to tell the story of General Raleigh and the CFO. I feel like they left Andrew's story unresolved, and to some extent Casey's with the way it ended.