Journal Entry 1 by Lizabeth86 from Middletown, Connecticut USA on Friday, September 03, 2010

From Booklist
Jackson, with many best-selling mass-market paperbacks under her belt, nimbly makes the switch to hardcover. Abby Chastain is ready for a change. Again. She had come back to New Orleans, her hometown, during a rocky marriage in search of a fresh start. (Jackson acknowledges that this New Orleans is pre-Katrina, the city as "it once was and will be again.") But her husband, local shock-jock Luke Gierman, fell right back into his old womanizing ways, which lead to a bitter divorce. When Detective Reuben Montoya darkens her door with the news that Luke has been killed alongside a young woman, Abby's emotions run the gamut from apathy to despair. Terror becomes the emotion du jour, however, as Montoya begins to find connections between the two victims, many of them stemming from Our Lady of Virtues, a hospital for the mentally impaired that is set for demolition but that had once been the home of Abby's mother and the place where she fell to her self-inflicted death. Can Montoya do his job as his fondness for Abby grows and as the bodies begin to stack up? Can Abby reconcile the repressed details of her mother's time at the asylum with the facts being uncovered during the investigation? Readers will know the answers soon enough because they won't be able to put this one down.  

Journal Entry 2 by Lizabeth86 at Middletown, Connecticut USA on Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Gave to my mom who will be leaving it in the waiting area where she works.