I want to start by saying that I experienced this steady-paced mystery as a stand-alone novel and may have enjoyed it even more if I had read the others in this series first.
Can’t Go Back is the final installment in a three-part series featuring Birmingham homicide detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco. The writing is good and it has a twisty plot, so you will need to pay close attention to the breadcrumbs of information along the way.
I suppose in keeping with real-life police work, this homicide investigation sends you chasing lead after lead. Each interrogation digs ever closer to what really happened the night of a local house fire, a tragic incident that claimed the young lives of a mother and her child. A shocking detail found at the scene suggests it may have been foul play.
Could it really have been murder? Who could do such a heinous thing?
The surviving patriarch of this family immediately confesses, adamantly claiming to be responsible, but the facts say otherwise, leaving the detective team to sort through a pile of evidence and a stack of lies to get down to the truth.
I’m a reader who likes to try to figure out the puzzle and occasionally I had to slow down to reread sections in order to keep all the details and the characters straight. In doing so, I still could not predict the big reveal. 3.5 stars.
I’d like to thank the author, NetGalley, and Thomas & Mercer for allowing me to read an advanced copy of Can’t Go Back for an honest review.
