If Something Happens to Me

By Alex Finlay
​** Publication Date 28 May 2024**
4.5 stars / This review will be posted on goodreads.com today. 

Do you ever read a novel and know right away what the subplot and the villains are? Not this one. I was nearly dumbfounded two thirds of the way through the book when the pieces started falling together. That is what makes a great crime/thriller/mystery novel.

Leavenworth Kansas is the site of a very famous prison, and the setting for the novel. Poppy McGee has just come home from an army discharge to start her new gig as a deputy sheriff. Her father is longtime friends with the Sheriff. This enabled Poppy to join the department without much effort. 
Almost at the same time, a car is pulled out of the nearby lake. A car belonging to another of her father’s old friends, and the car that was last seen driven by Alison Lane. Alison Lane who has been missing for years. Alleged to have been killed by the notorious serial killer roaming the area at the time.

Only this car contains two unknown men. 

Poppy is assigned to the case, as she is new to the department. It is up to Poppy to forge through the tip line and maybe make some connections of her own, and possibly solve the question of whatever happened to Alison?

So well written and such an easy book to whiz through. Honestly, I love books like this. They keep you riveted and glued and up way too late at night. The only reason it wasn’t finished in one night is that my eyes were crossing. Alex Finlay is a master of this genre. I could devour these books. Well done and well recommended!