Finished Tu 7/12/16 Just hours after cataract surgery at the Springfield Clinic. Procedure was scheduled for 1015am and I was home and reading by early afternoon. Amazing- book done by 4pm.
From Amazon-
"Seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer learned what true horror was the night a serial killer invaded her home and brutally murdered her father and her best friend. But the terror did not end there . . ."
"Ashley Spencer and her best friend, Tanya Jones, both high-school soccer superstars, had just gone to bed at Ashley's house after a post-game pizza party. Their rest was disturbed by an intruder, who slaughtered Ashley's father (her mother was out of town) and proceeded to rape Tanya. Then he inexplicably stopped for a snack, giving Ashley an unexpected opportunity to escape. Although she avoided physical assault, the haunting memory of her father's cries, Tanya's sobs, and the clinking of fork on plate as the intruder raided the family refrigerator have left Ashley emotionally numb. A transfer to a prestigious prep school with a good soccer program seems to be helping, freeing Ashley's mother, aspiring novelist Terri, to take a writing class with best-selling author Joshua Maxfield. When Maxfield's novel appears to be based on the Spencer family assault, Ashley and Terri find that their nightmare is not yet over. Margolin knows how to put together a high-concept thriller, piling plot twist upon plot twist and keeping the narrative pounding ever forward, even, on occasion, at the expense of believability. This time he pulls off a genuinely surprising ending, too, making up in part for the torment he heaps upon poor Ashley, who undergoes more trauma than any teenager should be forced to endure, even for the sake of a good story."
This is the story of a serial killer and the writer who is doing a book on this guy. The hook is that the writer is actually the killer.
Red Herrings galore, and a pretty twisty and convoluted plot, but I guess you have gotten pretty much what you paid for with a novel by Margolin.
author's page at wikipedia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Margolin
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