Book Blurb:
What Happened to the Bennetts: Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter’s lacrosse game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization – and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs. The agents advise the Bennetts to enter the witness protection program right away, and they have no choice but to agree. But WITSEC was designed to protect criminal informants, not law-abiding families. Taken from all they know, trapped in an unfamiliar life, the Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.
My Review: 4 stars
What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline is I book I probably wouldn’t have picked up had it not been by this particular author. As many of you know, I don’t read a ton of thrillers. I know so many of them are excellent, but sometimes the suspense gives me more anxiety than pleasure. After recently reading and loving Eternal, Scottoline’s foray into historical fiction, I thought I’d read one of her contemporary suspense books. Well, in this case, listen to one.
Honestly, the first chapter had me scared straight. Life is so unpredictable and as a parent, that scene of carjacking freaked me out. I almost bailed but am very glad I stuck with it. The story unravels like an onion, one layer (twist), then another (shocking news) and then another. I knew very little about Witsec (Witness Security Program) and found everything about that astoundingly sad and scary.
I related to their fears and how they knew their friends would not just accept their disappearance. I can see how the power of social media can reach far and wide, and with that the possibility of finding them. I couldn’t wrap my head around Jason’s reckless plans, especially against the mob, but I suppose it’s fiction and anything is possible.
Fans of suspense, domestic thrillers and lots of twisted surprises will like this book.
Quotes I liked:
That’s grief, man. It gets in you. Your body carries it. It’s embedded.”
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