barbara fister reviewed Accomplice by Lisa Lutz
Review of 'Accomplice' on 'LibraryThing'
Luna Gray has a secret, and it burdens her with guilt. She's moved on from the trial where, as a child, she helped exonerate her brother, who went on to commit another crime, but it has shaped her life and her relationship with her best friend Owen. Things grow harder to keep under wraps when Luna's friend - and Owen's wife - is murdered. Owen is a suspect, but so is the victim's creepy uncle. returnreturnWhile this story unrolls in 2019, we also travel back to the years when Owen and Luna were in college, and the death of a student who was obsessed with Owen begins to make Luna wonder if that death really was an accident. returnreturnI really enjoyed this offbeat, character-driven story with odd but compelling characters, all of whom had spectacularly awful families. (It will take some time for me to unsee the ferrets clinging to …
Luna Gray has a secret, and it burdens her with guilt. She's moved on from the trial where, as a child, she helped exonerate her brother, who went on to commit another crime, but it has shaped her life and her relationship with her best friend Owen. Things grow harder to keep under wraps when Luna's friend - and Owen's wife - is murdered. Owen is a suspect, but so is the victim's creepy uncle. returnreturnWhile this story unrolls in 2019, we also travel back to the years when Owen and Luna were in college, and the death of a student who was obsessed with Owen begins to make Luna wonder if that death really was an accident. returnreturnI really enjoyed this offbeat, character-driven story with odd but compelling characters, all of whom had spectacularly awful families. (It will take some time for me to unsee the ferrets clinging to the sweater, thanks.) The mystery twines around different time periods and depends on an elaborate clockwork of information withheld out of guilt or misunderstandings. If you enjoy unusual characters and aren't put off by stories told in two time-frames (quite handily managed in this case) I recommend it. Ferrets and all.
