When Your Only Hope is That Blood Really IS Thicker Than Water... (Review of The Locked Ward)
That sisterly—or sibling—bond is something I, an only child, will never know. But wow, have I wondered about it, over the years. What would it be like, to grow up with other people my own age? To share secrets and rivalries. To bicker... but probably also (at least sometimes), to have each other’s backs. But take that a few steps further, and imagine how it would feel to have a sibling—a twin , no less—of whom you’d never been aware... until you’d already lived more than three decades? And then, after learning that truth... you only reached out—to that previously-unknown person you’d once shared a womb with— after you’d been accused of murder? Bestselling thriller author Sarah Pekkanen takes a stab at how such a scenario might play out with her latest, The Locked Ward . For some reason, most of us don’t expect the uber-rich to have Big Problems. (As though obscene sums of money should be the...