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David Harwood’s life has been turned upside down. His wife’s moods have been strange for the past couple of weeks with talk of how he and their son would be better off without her. So when Jan says she’s got tickets for the family to go to the roller coaster park, he’d do anything to give her a good day. But in a bizarre set of circumstances, his wife disappears from the park with no proof that she’d ever been there, much less left.

All clues point to David and he finds out not only is his wife not who he was led to believe, but she’s set him up for her ‘murder.’ If that weren’t enough, he’s being leaned on both by the newspaper he writes for as well as the head of a company who wants to build a privately owned prison in his community, to squash a story of bribes accepted by officials to guarantee the outcome of the vote.

This fast paced whodunit takes place over a few days and is told from the viewpoints of David, Jan, the detective and a couple of bad guys, giving the reader a well-rounded view of what’s going on and why as David tries to figure out who is wife is and why she set him up.

The only complaint is that we only see Jan as a cold fish and never get to see the persona David fell in love with.