Yet Dinah and Joe Marino really are happy together. She\u2019s a homicide detective with the LAPD; he\u2019s a psychologist who left the police to open his own clinic. They may not have much of a sex life, but they\u2019re so mindful, attentive, and solicitous of each other that, as Dinah says, \u201cHe\u2019s the best part of my life, and I\u2019m the best part of his.\u201d So what if Dinah\u2019s been hiding an easily guessed secret from Joe for all eight years of their marriage? So what if Joe wonders what it would be like to kill Dinah the way he\u2019s killed those other women? After all, he\u2019s not at all inclined to do it because she\u2019s the perfect wife. The first cracks in their ice castle appear when Dinah, still mourning the death of her partner, Det. Oley Hugh, is assigned to investigate the death of Reese Bishop and learns that trainee detective Freddie Hodgkins will be tagging along with her. Freddie is full of ideas about the manner of Reese\u2019s death\u2014she seems to have overdosed months before she would have died of natural causes\u2014and the disappearance of her daughter, Jessica, who never showed up at Chunky Mike\u2019s, the ice cream parlor where she works. In fact, Jessica, whose point of view alternates with Dinah\u2019s and Joe\u2019s in a series of chapters as short and biting as lightning strikes, has descended into a hell that will eventually reveal unspeakable secrets about Dinah and Joe\u2019s happy marriage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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