She's Going to Pay
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In this tense, twisty domestic suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy, a woman returns to her sleepy hometown after her father’s disappearance and uncovers a dark web of family secrets that leaves her questioning everything. . .
Leaving Canton, Missouri, behind was no hardship for Jesse Hudson. When she was a teenager, her stepmother and stepsister abruptly disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Their bodies were never found, but Jesse’s father, Mac, became a murder suspect. When he too vanished, Jesse waited months for him to return. Finally, she left, bouncing from one bartending job to another for years.
Now Jesse is back, hoping to quickly sell her father’s old bar before moving on for good. But coming home to Canton’s quiet, cobblestone streets doesn’t go quite as expected. There are memories resurfacing, and ties that haven’t broken. Then her father’s lawyer makes a startling admission: before he disappeared, Mac had discovered that Jesse’s stepmother, Victoria, was living under an assumed name. “Victoria Hudson” never even existed. Who was she really?
Delving deeper, Jesse grows convinced that her father’s assumed death is tied to Victoria’s real identity. And looking to the past is yielding more than secrets. Someone has been waiting for this homecoming, for a chance to unleash revenge for sins real and imagined. And they’ll make sure that Jesse never leaves town again . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ivy (the Guardians of Eternity series) colors between the lines in this pedestrian thriller. In 2016, bar owner Mac Hudson was charged with murdering his wife, Victoria, and his stepdaughter, Tegan, after an eyewitness claimed to see Mac's truck near where Victoria disappeared in Canton, Mo. While no bodies were ever found and the case against Mac was eventually dismissed, suspicions lingered. Mac himself vanished soon after the case against him ended, and nine years later, his daughter and heir, Jesse, takes steps to have him legally declared dead. Her return to Canton to get the family bar in shape to be sold revives questions about all three disappearances, including the possible coercion of Mac's accuser by corrupt deputy Adam Tillman, who's since become sheriff. Jesse's inquiries uncover some disturbing facts, including the absence of any record that Mac and Victoria were ever married, and that Victoria was living under an assumed name. Ivy hits a laundry list of standard domestic suspense beats competently enough, but an unremarkable conclusion, forgettable characters, and uninspired prose weigh things down. This fails to make much of an impression.
