![]() ![]() The utterly shameless Jane takes full advantage of people’s tendency to underestimate her and punctuates her bad behavior with flashes of dark humor. In Jane, Rouda delivers another highly damaged and wildly unreliable narrator who is impossible to love but equally impossible to look away from. ![]() No one gets away with doing Jane wrong, and absolutely no one gets away with killing her favorite daughter (and Jane repeatedly makes it clear that Mary was her fave). Jane didn’t claw her way up from her horrid Arkansas upbringing for nothing. Jane has also been getting anonymous notes that indicate Mary’s accident might not have been so accidental and that Betsy might even have had something to do with it. After two decades of marriage, Jane discovers David is cheating (those tracker apps come in handy), and Betsy has been doing some sneaking around of her own. “Loving family” might be an overstatement. Jane is ready to make her return to the social scene of The Cove, her exclusive neighborhood, and of course as the glue that holds her loving family together. ![]() It’s also been hard for Jane’s husband, David, and artistic younger daughter, Betsy, who is about to graduate from high school. It’s been about a year since Jane Harris’ eldest daughter, Mary, drowned after a fall from a high cliff into the torrential waters off the Southern California coast, plunging Jane into a haze of grief and pills. There’s nothing a little revenge can’t fix in Rouda’s ( Best Day Ever, 2017, etc.) diabolical new domestic thriller. ![]()
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