Alex Finlay's EVERY LAST FEAR is a mystery/thriller with lots of twists. I loved reading it, didn’t want to put it down, and certainly didn’t want it to end.
The story is told from several different perspectives. Each contributes to the several mysteries going on.
We begin with Matt, who's away at college when an FBI agent informs him that his parents and sister and brother have died in Mexico. Why were they in Mexico? Were their deaths an accident? Could this be a murder suicide, or could they have all been murdered? Either way, why? Who might be involved?
Matt travels to Mexico to have his family's bodies released and sent back to the US. In Mexico he encounters trouble over and over with the incompetence of the police but, also, with a beautiful girl he meets and is unwittingly fooled by.
The FBI agent who gives Matt the news about his family is investigating this case. She had been intending to interview Matt's father, Evan, about his former employer. Could the deaths of Matt's family be somehow related to this company under investigation?
Matt also has another brother, Danny, in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, a crime his family and many other people do not think he committed. Matt secretly feels otherwise because of something he thinks he saw the night of this murder. But Danny confessed to the crime under extreme duress. Was it, therefore, a false confession? Could the murder of Danny's girlfriend and his imprisonment be somehow related to his family's deaths?
We learn more and more mysteries from others as well: Matt's teenage sister who has investigated and continues to investigate Danny's supposed crime; Evan, who also refuses to give up on Danny; Matt's mother, who loves her husband but still involves herself with an old boyfriend, the soon-to-be governor of Nebraska, who is also big on proclaiming Danny's innocence; and others.
I'm anxious to read more of Finlay's works. Plus, because "Alex Finlay" is a pen name, I'd also like to read books he wrote using his real name. He doesn't seem to want to share that, but I think it's Anthony Franze.
The story is told from several different perspectives. Each contributes to the several mysteries going on.
We begin with Matt, who's away at college when an FBI agent informs him that his parents and sister and brother have died in Mexico. Why were they in Mexico? Were their deaths an accident? Could this be a murder suicide, or could they have all been murdered? Either way, why? Who might be involved?
Matt travels to Mexico to have his family's bodies released and sent back to the US. In Mexico he encounters trouble over and over with the incompetence of the police but, also, with a beautiful girl he meets and is unwittingly fooled by.
The FBI agent who gives Matt the news about his family is investigating this case. She had been intending to interview Matt's father, Evan, about his former employer. Could the deaths of Matt's family be somehow related to this company under investigation?
Matt also has another brother, Danny, in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, a crime his family and many other people do not think he committed. Matt secretly feels otherwise because of something he thinks he saw the night of this murder. But Danny confessed to the crime under extreme duress. Was it, therefore, a false confession? Could the murder of Danny's girlfriend and his imprisonment be somehow related to his family's deaths?
We learn more and more mysteries from others as well: Matt's teenage sister who has investigated and continues to investigate Danny's supposed crime; Evan, who also refuses to give up on Danny; Matt's mother, who loves her husband but still involves herself with an old boyfriend, the soon-to-be governor of Nebraska, who is also big on proclaiming Danny's innocence; and others.
I'm anxious to read more of Finlay's works. Plus, because "Alex Finlay" is a pen name, I'd also like to read books he wrote using his real name. He doesn't seem to want to share that, but I think it's Anthony Franze.