Fool Her Once
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Some killers are born. Others are made.
As a rookie tabloid reporter, Jenna Sinclair made a tragic mistake when she outed Denny Dennison, the illegitimate son of an executed serial killer. So she hid behind her marriage and motherhood. Now, decades later, betrayed by her husband and resented by her teenage daughter, Jenna decides to resurrect her career—and returns to the city she loves.
When her former lover is brutally assaulted outside Jenna’s NYC apartment building, Jenna suspects that Denny has inherited his father’s psychopath gene and is out for revenge. She knows she must track him down before he can harm his next target, her daughter.
Meanwhile, her estranged husband, Zack, fears that her investigative reporting skills will unearth his own devastating secret he’d kept buried in the past.
From New York City to the remote North Fork of Long Island and the murky waters surrounding it, Jenna rushes to uncover the terrible truth about a psychopath and realizes her own investigation may save or destroy her family.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 2019, this well-constructed mystery from Elm (Delusion) stars journalist Jenna Sinclair, who left her job at the New York Sun two decades earlier under a weight of guilt after an article Jenna she wrote revealed that Denny Dennison, a culinary student who never knew his biological father, was the illegitimate son of a psychopathic rapist/murderer executed in 1978. The media frenzy that followed wreaked havoc on the young man's life. Jenna fled to the Hamptons, where she wrote for local papers and helped her husband run their bed and breakfast. Jenna's recent exposé about eateries in the Hamptons has garnered considerable attention, and she has renewed her affair with Ryan McCallister, formerly her editor at the Sun. When Ryan is attacked after a night spent celebrating Jenna's success, Jenna believes Denny could be the culprit. Her search for Denny pulls her into a disturbing spiral of events and leads to more than one murder. Elm provides some nice misdirection and loads the plot with liars and murky, shifting motives. Despite an ending that's a bit too predictable and tidy, readers will be satisfied.
