Corie Geller leaves the Joint Terrorism Task Force in the FBI to settle down with the perfect guy - a widow - and his daughter. Life seems pretty perfect. She and her stepdaughter enjoy a good relationship, her husband is a judge, they have a comfortable, wealthy life, and she gave up her job as a translator to enjoy all this. She's feeling a little unfulfilled though, and begins to notice that something is a little *off* about the guy in the lunch group she's joined to get herself out of the house every Wednesday. He always sits in the same place, obsessively watches his vehicle, uses cash, has a different cell phone, and is just....cold. Her investigative instinct is pinging hard.
The story goes on in excruciating detail from here, from her pulling her retired NYPD dad in to help her, to every single stage of effort she goes through to track him down, EVERY SINGLE CONVERSATION she's ever had with anyone ever about who this guy is, it really just goes on and on and on. The middle third of this book could probably have been reduced by half and still told a great story.
The last 3rd of this book saved it. It would require a lot of spoilers, but the action finally gets intense, Corie's true potential and character finally shine, and the plot gets really interesting, really quick. This part of it almost ended too fast after all the ho hum of the middle. I genuinely almost gave up because of how bad the middle dragged on. Fairly good read if you can make it through the middle of the book.