


Before killing himself, he murdered 13 people and injured many more. Three years before the novel begins, a mentally disturbed 15-year-old staged a shooting in Penn Station during peak commuting hours.

All this trauma landed him in a psychiatric hospital for a time.Įventually, Jack found success as a best-selling novelist and on the family front with his wife Molly and teenage daughter Buckley. Then he lost his only brother in a tragic auto accident the night Jack and Olivia split. As Olivia narrates the story, we learn that nice-guy Jack had to negotiate some difficult emotional territory before their breakup, with his mother dying during his teen years and his father when they were in college. Written by Alafair Burke - Even two decades later, New York criminal defense lawyer Olivia Randall has never quite forgiven herself for the unnecessarily cruel way she broke up with her fiancé, Jack Harris.
