Katherine "Kat" McCall had found her sister, Sara's, bloody, battered body when she was just 17 years old. Despite having nearly no evidence pointing to her guilt, the sheriff at the time had decided she was guilty of killing her own sister. Yes, they had fought a lot at the end with Kat screaming at Sara that she hated her and wanted her dead. But she hadn't really meant it. Kat really just wanted to be free to be with her older boyfriend so that she could stop sneaking around to see him.

Even though Kat had been found not guilty of the murder and had moved across the country, she had continued to receive anonymous little reminders over the years of her sister's death and that there still wasn't any real justice for Sara. Finally, gathering up her courage, she returns to the small Louisiana town of Liberty to find the killer. With the help of a new and very handsome sheriff, she might just be able to get justice for her sister after all.

Erica Spindler has long been one of my favorite authors. As soon as I see a new book out by her, I race to get my hands on it. She has a writing style that keeps her readers riveted from the beginning of the story until the very end. Many times, I've found myself sad when one of her books come to an end.

JUSTICE FOR SARA is no different in that it offers plenty of suspense centered on an unsolved murder. In the cast of characters, any one of them could have committed the crime, but I truly had no idea what had happened until the final pages. I read JUSTICE FOR SARA fairly quickly but I could have finished it even faster if life hadn't intruded. This book went everywhere with me. I was hungry to find out more while being annoyed when I had to stop reading.

There was just the right amount of spookiness as well as romance without going over the top in either of these areas. Also, while you may start to figure out part of the mystery, you'll never see all of it coming at you until it is right there. That's part of the beauty of Ms. Spindler's books. She keeps you on edge and doesn't give you a thing until she's ready.

The characters in JUSTICE FOR SARA are ones you may recognize if you live in a small southern town. I know I kept seeing certain real life people in many of them as I went along. Spindler is excellent at creating characters you can almost reach and touch.

Don't miss JUSTICE FOR SARA especially if you're a fan of Erica Spindler. In addition, since I can guarantee that you're going to get lost in JUSTICE FOR SARA, you might want to save it for a quiet day when you have nothing to interrupt you.

Book Summary

When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding. But she carried a dark secret with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had something to do with Sara’s death . . .

Now, years later, Kat is still haunted by her sister’s unsolved murder and continues to receive chilling anonymous letters, but she has tried to move on with her life. Until, on the tenth anniversary of Sara’s death, she receives a letter that makes the past impossible to ignore: "What about justice for Sara?" What about justice for Sara? And for herself? Kat realizes that going back to Liberty, Louisiana, might be the only way to move forward and find some peace. And there’s a killer out there who was never caught.

But the town she’s come back to is hardly different from the one she left. The secrets and suspicions still run deep. Kat has an ally in Detective Luke Tanner, son of the former Liberty police chief, but he may be her only one. With plenty of enemies, no one to trust and a killer determined to keep a dark secret buried, Kat must decide if justice is worth fighting—and dying—for.

Bestselling author Erica Spindler returns with a chilling new suspense novel about a woman who goes home ten years after her sister's murder to find the true killer