Overview:
Don’t Go by Lisa Scottoline is a novel about the mysterious circumstances surrounding a woman’s death and her soldier husband’s investigation (available April 9, 2013).
Lisa Scottoline’s twentieth novel, Don’t Go, opens with the prosaic: Chloe Peterson, a young mother whose husband Mike is an Army Medical Corps reservist serving in Afghanistan, is unloading the dishwasher in her suburban Philadelphia home when a kitchen knife slips and slices open her arm. Even the fact that she’s drunk and passes out from the sight of her own blood seems unremarkable enough.
It is when someone walks into the house, sees Chloe has been dragging herself toward the door in a desperate effort to reach help, and walks out without a word that the phrase “ordinary household accident” no longer applies.
Scottoline adeptly drives the reader to question every character’s motives right along with Mike, who returns to Afghanistan after his “bereavement week” an angry and disappointed man. The gallows humor of his buddy “Chatty” Chatham is his best medicine—until the autopsy report Mike requested reveals Chloe had deceived him more deeply than he could have imagined.
Don’t Go, offering the epigram “Every war has its own signature wounds,” uses mystery to examine how the tragedy of a distant war reverberates at home. Even more lasting to this reader, however, was the earlier wound echoing through Mike’s life in a way that far too many have experienced first-hand.
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And Blessed Are The Ones Who Care For Their Fellow Men!
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