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Absorbing and masterful psychological suspense, this top-notch thriller is intermingled with thoughtful social commentary on aging, grief, loneliness, and mental clarity — and how hard it is really separate those concepts.

Linda Davidson, our first person POV narrator, is seventy-six years old, recently widowed, and living in the retirement Mecca of Jupiter, Florida. Linda has opened her home to her adult daughter, Kleo and her husband, Mick, — a young and beautiful couple who need a respite from rent and other financial obligations.

The intensity of her love for her resident daughter, however, doesn’t absolve Linda’s overwhelming loneliness, as she watches the disintegration of her best friend, Carol, deep in the throes of the insidious reach of Alzheimer’s disease.

Linda’s world, as desolate as it currently is, is thrown into upheaval, when, on one of her daily visits to the Memory Care home, she meets Jenny Cooper, a ninety-two year old ‘character’ who is delightfully wacky, sometimes sharp as a tack, and always a teller of very tall tales. Is Jenny actually a diabolical serial killer? Is she a harmless old lady with a terrific imagination? Or is she simply mentally ill, another victim of the ravages of dementia?

What Jenny undoubtedly is, the reader will learn, is a breath of fresh air for Linda, as this story evolves, the plot thickens, and the two women begin a relationship that is certainly tender, with heaps of humor, mystery and suspense thrown in, culminating into an absolutely compelling ride.

A wonderful read, and one that touched this reader, as much as it entertained.

A great big thank you to #Netgalley, the publisher and the author for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.