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Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan

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I'm breaking all my own blog rules by reviewing Hank Phillippi Ryan's standalone two weeks before release date. But,  Trust Me, you're going to want to pre-order this suspense novel. If it's handled correctly, this should be this summer's Gone Girl.  Ryan has been on the bestseller lists, but Trust Me should be her breakout novel, the one readers will remember. With that kind of lead-in, now I have to say  Trust Me is a difficult novel to summarize without spoilers. It's been over a year since Mercer Hennessey's husband and daughter were killed in a tragic accident, but she's still in mourning. So, it comes as a shock to her when her former editor, Katherine Craft, calls her and asks her to take on a book assignment. She wants her to watch the trial of Ashlyn Bryant, a mother accused of killing her toddler daughter, once known as "Baby Boston" when the body was still unidentified. If Ashlyn is found guilty, and everyone seems to assume she wi...