Gone in the Night
A Detective Annalisa Vega Novel
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4.4 • 10 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The fifth installment of the beloved Annalisa Vega series
Detective Annalisa Vega hasn’t forgiven her brother for his role in a murder, and he hasn’t forgiven her for turning him in, so she’s surprised when he asks her to visit him in prison. Turns out, he has a possible case for her: one of his fellow inmates, Joe Green, may be innocent of the murder that landed him behind bars.
Joe is doing hard time for killing his ex-wife’s lawyer, but an anonymous letter sent to the prison warns that the eyewitness in Joe’s trial made up her story. With her private investigation business foundering, Annalisa is desperate enough to start poking around into Joe’s meager case. She immediately finds two problems: One, the eyewitness definitely lied about what she saw the night of the murder, and two, Annalisa’s husband Nick was the cop who arrested Joe in the first place.
Faced with correcting Nick’s mistakes, Annalisa digs deeper into Joe’s past and discovers he has two ex-wives with nothing good to say about him. The women may have orchestrated an elaborate frame to put Joe in prison, but one wife has completely disappeared since then. Did Joe somehow kill her? Or is he the real victim? Annalisa’s search for the truth tests the bounds of her marriage, her family, and her own sense of justice. Meanwhile, a devious killer keeps sending men to a watery death in the vastness of Lake Michigan. If Annalisa doesn’t figure out the truth about Joe soon, her husband might be next.
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The satisfyingly complex fifth case for former Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega (after All the Way Gone) comes to her from her brother, Alex, who's serving time for aiding in a murder. Alex asks Analisa, heavily pregnant and scrambling for work as a private investigator, to look into the case of Joe Green, a fellow inmate who was convicted of killing Cyrus Merriman, his ex-wife's lawyer. Alex believes Green is innocent and wants Annalisa to prove it. She agrees—in part because she still feels guilty about her role in putting Alex behind bars—even though her husband was the lead detective on Green's original case. As Annalisa's inquiry unfolds, she learns that one of Green's ex-wives accused him of beating her, and another disappeared. Merriman, it turns out, had been performing pro bono work for Ruby's Place, a shelter for women attempting to escape abusive relationships. Schaffhausen generates meaningful stakes for Analisa, with her marriage put under increasing strain as she dives deeper into her investigation, and weaves in sobering statistics about violence against women. If the action gets a bit too busy as the twists pile up, readers are unlikely to mind. This is a ride worth taking.
