Sadly I just couldn't get into this one. Maybe it needs you to read the first couple of book sin the series to get a feel for the characters. I felt lost and disconnected with the story and the characters and didn't really care what happened.

It's not often a story takes you on a journey that when finished you sit for a moment and reflect quietly soaking up how wonderful the experience was. With judical procedures, family, ethics, doubt, marriage, and even menopause thrown into a mix that works so well shows how stories can take one to another place.
This is one of my best for 2020 V.S Kermanis take a bow.
An independent review thanks to NetGalley / Opus Nine

I really enjoyed reading this it had what I wanted from a thriller novel and I really liked Dana Hargrove. She was an interesting character and I enjoyed going into this novel.

A dense drama in the legal world. Senior Judge Dana Hargrove has two complex cases on her file as well as family issues - children left home for Uni, husband Evan a Professor of Law at the local University and she's suffering from the menopause. Her way of coping is to work harder. Her younger sister is a media super star and has a young child whose absent father now wants to return to the family, probably because of the money now available to him. Dana's husband has to cope with a lazy student who thinks he's the bees knees and deserves A's all round and is, essentially, stalking Evan. The sister has to cope with an ever increasingly abusive former partner. Dana has to work out what really matters. It's a complex, legalistic and well-written book. Thanks to NetGalley and Opus Nine Books for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.