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When her closest childhood friend disappears, Detective Jo Bailen returns home to Delphi, Arizona, at the family’s request in Sydney Graves’ The Arizona Triangle.
Jo and Rose were as close as sisters for years until, in high school, they had a falling out over a guy. Tyler became Jo’s boyfriend, which left Rose feeling betrayed and alone. She harbored her feelings of resentment for years, shutting them both out until one night when the three of them shared something intimate. That moment, which seemed positive, became the catalyst for tragedy and trauma later.
When Jo returns to Delphi, her search takes her into many of the corners of the Native community and the affluent commune in which Rose was raised. And Rose’s disappearance isn’t the only thorny issue: land developers are getting local owners to sell off their property for the promise of a high retirement community that may or may not get built.
So, there’s a missing woman. A private investigator. A love triangle. A potentially fraudulent land deal. Did I mention the scandal surrounding Rose for falsely claiming to be Navajo? A lie that cost her a professorship and shamed her family? Or the punk feminist band she was in with people who were maybe in love with her? Yeah. It’s a lot.
And the final chapter includes one of the most horrific depictions of abuse I’ve ever read. I wanted to wash my brain with steel wool afterward. You can’t unread it, people.
There’s a great mystery at the heart of the book, but it’s buried in a mess of other things that keep me from ever wanting to read another Sydney Graves novel.