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Interesting little semi-mystery (it's less a whodunit, more a character study of the suspects and the victim). The twist here is that our titular character, Jennifer is a renowned hand surgeon recently forced into retirement due to early-onset Alzheimer's. We walk with Jennifer (I had a hard time with this name for some reason. Maybe because she's my mother's age and I tend to think of "Jennifer" as a name for my contemporaries, not hers. I feel the same way about one of those "I've fallen and I can't get up" commercials where the elderly woman's name is Julie. "Julie" and "Jennifer" aren't names for the older set in my narrow little mind.) as the disease progresses and as she tries to deal with the loss of her faculties, the investigation of the murder of her neighbor and best friend (where Jennifer is the chief suspect), her children, both of whom are incredibly problematic and with her memories of her late husband.

LaPlante does her characters justice - no one is very good and many are quite irritating and/or horrible people....just like life. Early-onset Alzheimer's was perhaps done a bit better in the great Still Alice and the mystery really isn't much, but that isn't the point, either. I tore through it (finished in a day) so it was a page-turner for me and well done.