Don't Ask, Don't Follow
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Publisher Description
Murder, dark family secrets, and the unwavering bond of sisterhood— regardless of the cost
Beth Ralston, a paralegal in Portland, Oregon, would rather be racking up billable hours than mingling at an office party— especially when her sister Lindsay, aka her plus one, is a no-show.
After making her obligatory rounds, Beth returns to her office to find that her boss, who she' d talked with moments before, has been murdered. She sees a woman fleeing the scene. Wait— was that Lindsay? Unable to catch up to her in time, Beth waits for the police to arrive and notices that Lindsay has left her phone behind with an unsent text message to Beth displayed on the screen: “ Don' t ask. Don' t follow.”
Lindsay is unreachable for days, and when Beth starts to come under suspicion for the crime, she decides that waiting is impossible. While retracing Lindsay' s steps, determined to bring her home, Beth uncovers what her sister, an investigative reporter bent on changing the world, was trying to expose— corruption, secrets, and betrayal on an unimaginable level. Revealing the truth might bring back the one person she' s desperate to find— but it could also destroy the only life and family Beth' s ever known.
Perfect for fans of Gregg Olsen and Karin Slaughter
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A Portland paralegal gets roped into a deadly game targeting the city's poor in this slick suspense novel from Keliikoa (the Kelly Pruett series). Beth Ralston, a paralegal at her father's law firm in Portland, Ore., ducks out of the company Christmas party to locate her missing boss, Craig Bartell. When she gets to Craig's office, she finds him dead, and glimpses her older sister, investigative reporter Lindsay, fleeing out of the building's back entrance. While she waits for the police to arrive, she discovers Lindsay's phone, with an unsent text to Beth typed on the screen ("Don't ask. Don't follow"). There's also a suspicious recent message from Craig. Shocked and full of questions, Beth sets out to find her sister—but her self-absorbed father, concerned with keeping up appearances during his Portland mayoral campaign, seems determined to stop her search. As Beth pries further, she stumbles on a harrowing plot involving the city's homeless; from there, the body count rises steadily. The denouement is a little far-fetched, and some of the supporting characters collapse into caricature, but Keliikoa provides enough action and plot turns to keep thrill seekers hooked to the end. It's a bingeworthy beach read.
