As Time Goes By

The plot of this story just never really panned out in entirety in my opinion. Betsy Grant is our main character who's standing trial accused of killing her husband. At the same time we get the story of Delaney who is a news anchor pining for her birth parents. Which of course we learn about in a rushed sort of way, almost as an afterthought when I feel that plot line was quite important.

The true killer of Betsy's husband is revealed within the last chapter and just willingly gives up incriminating information, it felt rushed and quite sloppy.

I wish I could have loved this story but it left me feeling like I needed more information and still had questions about the true killer.

while being only 278 or so pages this book packed a punch. while many mysteries are a police procedural this leaned more towards a trail procedural. the process of the trail was splendidly covered with the corresponding reactions from either side of the trail. Ms. Clark is a wonder at hiding clue that subliminally cue us towards the answer at the same time giving us the answers to some of the questions while making us anxious, hoping that the characters would be able to find out the answers in time

She expertly intertwined three storylines providing us with anxiety that paced the book. the integration of the three timelines where done extremely seamlessly that one feel that this is the only way the story would have made any sense.

the pacing was incredible. I did not have a chance to have a sigh of relief that the characters we going to be fine. I was on my feet almost pacing. till the last 2 pages. what a climax. This is not going to be a character-based study. you're not going to have the individual dwelling thoughts as well as the one on one romance science that last chapters. this was a more overall situational study that jumped from one POV to the other which gave as a wide range of story was well as keeping the pace fast