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Book Review of Look Closely

Look Closely
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Look Closely - That's all the anonymous letter said, but attorney Hailey Sutter understands the meaning behind the well-chosen words. Someone wants her to investigate what happened to her mother, who died with Hailey was only seven.

The death was ruled accidental, but hailey begins having flashbacks that tell a different story; a pounding at the door...her mother stuggling to stand...a man with a gold ring that flashed in the night as he held her mother's lifeless body.

Obsessed with uncovering the truth, hailey can't trust anyone, especially her father, whose secrecy both unnerves and protects her. Desperate to remember that fatal night, she seeks out hte brother and sister who left home after their mother's death. But they have disappeared. It's soon clear to Hailey that the answer is right in front of her--all she has to do is find the courage to look closely.