Play Book Tag discussion

3.75 stars

When four moms meet up and, early during COVID, want something more to keep them busy, they find a cold case they want to investigate. Marissa is, in fact, a student hoping to become an investigative journalist, so this isn’t as far-fetched as it might seem.

Joel and Angela Watson had a company that was not doing well. They disappeared in May 2005, and were later found at the bottom of a ravine where their car had gone off a cliff. But it wasn’t long before the police knew it wasn’t an accident. One of their sons and a son-in-law were acting oddly, but nothing came of that in the investigation and the case went cold. In early 2020. Marissa became obsessed with it, and found three mom-friends who joined her in trying to figure out the case.

This is a true story! I saw it in the subtitle but didn’t quite believe it. But there is a picture of the four women at the end and an author’s note. There was much money/financial stuff that kind of lost my interest in the explanations as they investigated, but the rest of the story was interesting to me. I really like how COVID was integrated into the story (but then, it was real-life at the time). There was mention at one point in the story of a true crime podcast I’ve just recently started listening to, so that was fun. I was a bit disappointed in how it ended, though I suppose it had to go that way (and again, true story, so it’s not like it can be changed!).