This book starts out with someone getting shot but you do not know who. Then goes back and tells about the dysfunctional families who are neighbors. Then ends with the reader finding out who got shot and why. Some of the characters are easy to like but others not very much.

Fielding presents a who dunnit in reverse. Someone living in this quiet little suburb has been shot, but who is it? The story then travels back in time, examining the lives of the seemingly ordinary people who live in the cul-de-sac, who on closer inspection, reveal themselves to be anything but ordinary. An enjoyable mystery that will keep readers guessing