Mystery/Thriller -- 4 1/2 stars
Two sisters, Leigh, a successful lawyer, and Callie, a drug addict, share a secret that could put them both in prison for life. They've held this secret for 23 years, but Leigh's new client is going to spill all unless she does exactly as he says. ----- Karin Slaughter has done it again, creating fresh characters where cookie cutter figures may have sufficed in a lessor author. Instead, Ms. Slaughter tweaks the success/failure formula adding a mutual devotion that makes the sisters breathe, giving life to a story that twists and surprises as they face a conundrum that will surely destroy one of them in the end. Building from a highly original situation, this dark story flies.
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